SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – At least 200 employees – about 10% of Twitter's workforce – were laid off over the weekend.
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The job cuts impacted multiple engineering teams, including those that reportedly keep the app up and running, according to reporting by The New York Times.
Among those let go are several so-called "loyalists" who once slept at the company’s San Francisco headquarters as part of Elon Musk’s efforts to remake the social media giant when he took over last year.
It's unclear just how safe the jobs are for those who are left still standing.
When Musk took over in the fall of last year, he made employees sign a so-called "loyalty oath," agreeing to long, intense working hours, or to find another job.
But this sort of loyalty doesn't seem to go both ways.
"I think we need to all agree to quit using the word loyalist when it comes to workplace relationships," said career strategist Julie Bauke.
"Everybody who works there, and everybody who doesn't work there, has known that it's on the ropes, it's unstable," she said. "Twitter is trying to get its feet under itself again."
"And that Elon Musk is making a lot of risky moves," Bauke added.
People who work at a troubled company, whether it’s Twitter or somewhere else going through upheaval, better be prepared to lose their jobs.
"If we've learned nothing the last several years – it's that every company can live without each of us," she said.
According to Bauke, the three things people always need to be doing are have their LinkedIn profile up to date, have their resume up to date, and keep an active network of people around who can speak to their talents.
"In other words, be prepared to go," she said.
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