It might be arbitrary and pure speculation but with ~7500 employees (3000 of which are engineers) I think they'll be able to do just fine with 5000. -25% of staff would just mean going back to 2019 staff levels...
I remember it was a common meme on HN to ask what Twitter's thousands of employees did all day, even back in 2015. So maybe I'm falling into that trap. But I do still wonder.
for 2021, 1.2 billion was spent on R&D, 1.7 billion on cost of revenue (guessing a decent amount of this was salaries), and 765 million was due to a class action lawsuit they lost. With all of these, they showed a loss of 200 million. There definitely appears to be some fat that can be trimmed.
This year is on track for a gain, but they sold some ad service for a billion which distorts things.
Is the billion in debt payments actually confirmed? That would most likely require some increase in revenue which is probably why Musk is looking into the verified twitter payment thing.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/272140/employees-of-twit...
I remember it was a common meme on HN to ask what Twitter's thousands of employees did all day, even back in 2015. So maybe I'm falling into that trap. But I do still wonder.