sheperd209

A lot has happened since Elon Musk took over and fired around 85% of Twitter's engineering workforces. There has been many controversial news surrounding the whole ordeal.

My question though is STRICTLY about the running and engineering practices of Twitter/X. We have seen Twitter's revenue plummet, and a lot of negative press.

But what we haven't seen is twitter the actual website/platform implode like many engineers predicted.

So I want to ask for the opinions of y'all. Are most companies hiring too many engineers? How were they able to maintain this massive platform despite cutting off so many engineers. Have we over-estimated the importance of engineers?

I come from an applied mathematics background but by no means a researcher/academic.

Still every time I look at a clickbaity psychology article title, it baffles me how they arrive at their conclusions.

Also I'm very skeptical of their understanding of statistics or worse yet, I've heard that there's a lot of "p-hacking" to get the results they want.

It seems like such a bogus fields but they dress it up with scientific terminology and statistics.

Unironically, can someone tell me why they think it's bullshit if they do, and tell me why it's not bullshit if you don't it is.