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You think half of Twitter's engineers aren't just bad, they are dead weight. And there was no performance evaluation system in place to get rid of them? Come on. That's an outrageous claim without any evidence.

If half of my coworkers got laid off, I would be exactly the opposite of inspired. I'd feel ashamed that I stayed after that.

If half of my coworkers got laid off, I'd be running away from the company faster than light. Staying after they pull a stunt like that only means waiting until they pull another one (or the company just collapses from the shock of losing that much capacity).

>...be stronger than ever with an inspired staff

Ah yes, the "inspiration" from solving the world's biggest problems of letting people send deep thoughts two sentences at a time.