Twitter is down to fewer than 550 full-time engineers

Twitter's full-time headcount has dwindled to astir 1,300 employees, including less than 550 full-time engineers by title, according to interior records viewed by CNBC. Around 75 of the company's 1,300 employees are connected permission including astir 40 engineers.

The company's spot and information team, which makes argumentation recommendations, plan and merchandise changes with the purpose of keeping each of Twitter's users safe, is down to less than 20 full-time employees.

Under Elon Musk's management, Twitter has slashed headcount done mass layoffs, different terminations and changes that compelled galore to resign, including the extremity of a work-from-home everlastingly policy that had been enactment successful spot nether erstwhile CEO Jack Dorsey.

Before Musk led a $44 cardinal leveraged buyout of Twitter past year, Twitter's headcount stood astatine astir 7,500 employees. Layoffs were rumored internally and expected to instrumentality spot whether Musk's takeover went done oregon not. However, Musk has chopped Twitter unit acold much than galore expected -- oregon by astir 80% according to the interior records and 2 caller employees who spoke with CNBC.

According to an technologist who resigned from the company, the nonaccomplishment of employees and reduced headcount volition marque it harder to support the work reliably portion inactive gathering caller features.

This person, who asked to stay unnamed portion discussing a anterior employer, explained that the company's codification basal is massive, and it requires cognition of antithetic platforms and programming languages to support antithetic parts of Twitter-- advertizing services versus the halfway timeline, for instance. Engineers' skillsets, they said, are not needfully transferrable crossed each of these. And it volition beryllium hard to bid engineers aft losing truthful overmuch organization knowledge, this idiosyncratic added.

In summation to astir 1,300 full-time employees, Musk has besides authorized astir 130 radical from his different businesses, including Tesla, SpaceX and The Boring Company, arsenic good arsenic endowment from task funds and different firms, to enactment astatine Twitter.

Since taking implicit Twitter, Musk has faced a shareholder backlash astatine Tesla for being distracted, for stirring up governmental contention with his strategy astatine Twitter, and for selling billions of dollars worthy of his Tesla shares to concern his Twitter takeover.