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It’s a dark time to be a tech worker right now (finance.yahoo.com)

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It’s a dark time to be a tech worker right now::Nearly 300,000 tech employees have been laid off since last year, data shows.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

From a tech workers perspective, Twitter has long been known for having a resilient infrastructure, so it's hardly surprising that when Elon (literally) ripped servers out of the wall, some things stayed up.

Sure, they had a lot of issues since Elon took over, but I'd say that many of them are due to the new features that Elon sticky-taped on. Twitter's solid tech infrastructure was one of the reasons why I always wanted to work there, so I'm doubly-sad to see it go to shit under Musk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Agreed and this is the reason I think was possible to hollow it out without it falling apart. Then some other guy with 5 extra brain cells and another robust system under their control is probably like - "I wonder how much labor I can hollow out, till shit starts cracking. So long as I don't pull any public stunts like Elon and I don't go beyond the cracks... 🤔💸"

BTW I've been at a hollowed out tech company. A very well known name. It's truly incredible how different things could look from the inside compared to the outside. Massive mountains of tech debt, people doing multi-week on-call shifts to keep shit running, rarely getting a full night's sleep, trustworthy household nameplate on the outside. The stock was doing okay. Still is actually.