[jshorty]

I don't understand this argument. If 8k employees were laying technical groundwork that can be transformed into product features more efficiently than greenfield work, how were they "doing nothing"? Twitter is a mature product used by millions, not every engineer is going to be shipping user-facing changes regularly.

[idlewords]

This was my snarky way of saying that the company was doing nothing to improve its core product while massively overstaffed.