Twitter team leaders and VPs have compiled lists for Elon Musk of who to keep based on performance evaluations. Employees expect layoffs to begin very soon.
He and his transition team are said to be planning"aggressive" layoffs, likely to begin very soon.Twitter employees expect Elon Musk to begin layoffs very soon because performance evaluations and code reviews have been progressing swiftly inside the company.. Musk and his team, made up of people from his family office, Excession, and his personal lawyer Alex Spiro, along with some other Twitter leaders, are working on a transition of power this weekend at Twitter HQ in San Francisco.
to take over operations, the people said. They asked not to be identified discussing private matters. Representatives for Twitter did not respond to a request for comment on Saturday. Those meetings covered who among Twitter's engineers had made contributions and changes to code recently. The quality of those changes was also evaluated, and the"top" or best performers were identified, one of the people familiar with the process said. Overall, the point of the meetings and discussions was to"ask for who to cut, who to keep and what orgs are bad," this person added.
Given the pace at which the stack ranking happened, employees expect layoffs to begin very soon, both of the people familiar with the process said. The New York Times reported that job cuts could start as soon as Saturday.