{"id":43407,"date":"2023-10-20T15:28:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/twitter-layoffs-ignite-hiring-frenzy-on-twitter-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:28:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:28:21","slug":"twitter-layoffs-ignite-hiring-frenzy-on-twitter-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/twitter-layoffs-ignite-hiring-frenzy-on-twitter-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter layoffs ignite hiring frenzy on Twitter – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
The recent mass-firing of Twitter employees has led to a hiring frenzy facilitated through Twitter.<\/p>\n
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Up to 336 Twitter employees lost their jobs this week as part of new CEO Jack Dorsey\u2019s \u201crestructuring\u201d of the company, but it didn\u2019t take long for many new opportunities to arise.<\/p>\n
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Many rival tech companies have taken to the #TwitterLayoffs hashtag to post job openings and try to recruit some of the talented people that lost their jobs at Twitter.<\/p>\n
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The likes of Facebook, Yelp, Nest, Tune, CrowdStrike , Shopify and Sega have all posted with the hashtag trying to recruit former Twitter employees.<\/p>\n
\n@SEGA let Nintendo buy you<\/p>\n
\u2014 Brain #ThankYouIwata (@BrainzTheGamez) October 15, 2015<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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\nHey former Twitter engineers, come work at #Yelp. We’re right down the street and doing awesome things! Let’s get coffee! #Twitterlayoffs<\/p>\n
\u2014 Johnathon Schultz (@Ajaxify) October 14, 2015<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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\nIf you were in the #Twitterlayoffs, @cloudera is in SF and Palo Alto and is hiring in pretty much every department.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Mike Olson (@mikeolson) October 14, 2015<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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\nDear #Twitterlayoffs, one door closes and another door is already open: http:\/\/t.co\/NnBoyPol70 Come join the @CrowdStrike mission! #SDET<\/p>\n
\u2014 John McLaughlin (@johnmcl69) October 13, 2015<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
It\u2019s a testament to the high regard that many of these Twitter employees are held in, and the way a social networking platform can be used for finding new talent, even if that new talent was recently fired from the very platform that\u2019s being used.<\/p>\n
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Venture Beat European correspondent Chris O\u2019Brien shared an amusing quote from a Twitter employee that was laid off: \u201cThe 37 minutes before I found a new job were the darkest moments of my life\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Before the tech companies barged in, #TwitterLayoffs was being used by people to share anguish and anger over how the layoffs were handled by Twitter.<\/p>\n
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One former employee tweeted that he was informed he had lost his job by being locked out of his work accounts.<\/p>\n
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While many startups tried to give the ex-Twitter workers new jobs, Y Combinator founder Sam Altman tweeted that they should create their own instead.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIf you\u2019re a Twitter employee that got laid off and you want to apply to YC but need a few more days, email me and we\u2019ll give you more time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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