[tajano]

I predicted Twitter would be the next unicorn to cut staff and offices ten days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10300002). To be honest, I didn't think it would happen quite this fast.

But 4K employees, 2K engineers to support Twitter? If they were still in a rapid growth/innovation phase, perhaps they could get away with this. But rapid growth is over.

[twistedpair]

But how many engineers if they were still on Ruby? Perhaps they can drop Scala for Erlang and get down to 100 engineers?