[wwtrv]

> If they can fire 80% most companies should

What's special about "them"? Twitter was technically never a particularly complex product that required some kind of exceptional talent. Not even remotely in the same ballpark compared to what Intel is doing (or trying to do anyway...)

[JeremyNT]

Indeed there are highly valuable experts at Intel - there have to be, for them to function at all. They're an engineering company making incredibly complex products, unlike Twitter which just sold ads.

But there are also likely to be countless "twitter-like" employees too, paid to sit on their hands or faff about with branding or tinker with devops parlor tricks or gate access to resources that engineers need.

So the current level of cuts passes the "gut" check for me. They surely have less "chaff" than Twitter, and it's crucial not to accidentally cut too many key personnel in the process.

[AnimalMuppet]

The big difference is that Intel is a manufacturer, not just a web site. They need people on the ground, many of them, in anticontamination suits, 24/7. That changes the "can we just fire 80% of them" question by quite a bit.