According to two people who attended and a portion of a recording obtained by The Verge, Musk stated during a meeting with Twitter employees today that the company is finished with layoffs and actively hiring for positions in engineering and sales. He also stated that employees are encouraged to make referrals. The same day that he made his remarks, Twitter’s sales team, which has lost nearly all of its senior leadership since Musk took control, was hit by an unspecified wave of layoffs.There are presently no open positions listed on Twitter’s website, and Musk made no mention of the specific engineering or sales positions the business was hiring for. During the discussion, he declared, I would say that people who are outstanding at writing software are the top priority in terms of critical hiring.Video Courtesy: Bloomberg TechnologyAccording to a report from The Verge published this week, Twitter recruiters have been approaching engineers with an invitation to join Twitter 2.0 u2013 an Elon company. Since Musk ordered all Twitter employees to opt into staying for his very tough cultural reset, which resulted in almost 1,000 resignations last week, Monday’s all-hands meeting was the first time Twitter staff heard from Musk. The CEO answered questions from staffers for about 30 minutes from the company’s San Francisco headquarters. He said there are no plans to relocate Twitter to Texas, as he did with Tesla, but that it might make sense to have dual-headquartered offices in California and Texas. He recognized that the company’s ongoing restructuring will have a lot of missteps, but that it would stabilize with time. Musk further suggested that significant portions of the technology stack need to be rebuilt from scratch in response to a query from an employee. He also suggested during the same meeting that it would be a good idea to somewhat decentralize things by establishing engineering teams in Brazil, Japan, India, and Indonesia.
