It has been lower than 90 days since Elon Musk enacted his first mass layoff at Twitter, and whereas hundreds of former staff hunt for jobs, a pair had been shocked to obtain recruiter outreach from one firm particularly.
That firm can be Twitter. Choose staff who had been laid off in a single day in early November have been contacted by recruiters on behalf of Twitter trying to talk about potential jobs they might be keen on, in keeping with two individuals conversant in the corporate. At the same time as a whole bunch of such staff are concerned in authorized motion towards Musk over their lack of severance and different allegedly promised issues.
At the very least two emails have been despatched by Twitter recruiters to laid-off employees with the topic line “Howdy from Twitter!,” in keeping with messages seen by Insider. That topic line has been utilized by Twitter recruiters for years in reaching out chilly to potential job candidates, one of many individuals acquainted stated. It is also been utilized in outreach to some individuals affected by layoffs at Microsoft, in keeping with some reports on Twitter.
In a single electronic mail seen by Insider, the recruiter introduced up the particular person’s previous job expertise in tech and at Twitter, acknowledging that they had labored there. They nonetheless requested to debate “alternatives” on the firm.
“That is soiled,” one former worker stated of Twitter recruiters contacting individuals who labored there solely a few months in the past.
“What do you even say as that recruiter? What is the pitch?” one other former worker added.
It is unclear if Twitter has any obtainable jobs. A consultant of the corporate didn’t reply to an electronic mail looking for remark. The corporate is struggling financially, as Musk has admitted. A handful of jobs listed since December on Twitter’s web site and LinkedIn are all described as “future alternatives,” which means nobody might be employed for the job proper now, the posts clarify. The corporate has additionally struggled to deal with adjustments underneath Musk which were so frenzied that individuals are steadily fired by mistake.
One present worker admitted Twitter does want extra individuals, because the remaining employees is overworked and continually taking over extra duties as much more individuals are laid off or fired, however the particular person has heard no “actual speak” of hiring.
Conventional hiring at Twitter has up to now been non-existent underneath Musk. There have been no government appointments since he took over and shortly fired successfully the entire firm’s present management. But many individuals from his different firms, like Jared Birchall from his household workplace Excession, Steve Davis, CEO of the Boring Firm, and Tim Hughes, common counsel at SpaceX, have all been seen taking over management at Twitter in latest weeks, in keeping with one other particular person conversant in the corporate. Dozens extra engineers from Musk’s different firms, a few trade followers, and even just a few relations have been working at Twitter, too.
Outdoors of those additions, Twitter has extra just lately seen hundreds of staff laid off, fired, or resigned. And layoffs and firings proceed to occur on an successfully fixed foundation, with the most recent rounds of layoffs and international workplace closures anticipated to deliver the corporate’s headcount to underneath 2,000 individuals, lower than half of them engineers, making Twitter the smallest it has been in over a decade. Previous to Musk’s takeover bid final 12 months, about 8,000 individuals labored at Twitter.
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