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Monica Melton
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Senior Tech Editor
@businessinsider
| previously Managing Editor
@tpinsights
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@forbes
| alumna
@newmarkjschool
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@UW
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Brooklyn, NYbusinessinsider.com/saiJoined March 2011
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Kali Hays
@HaysKali
When the guy who gave you $400 million to help you buy Twitter starts to complain in private, and then you keep testing new things on millions of users instead of just a couple thousand, and then you say publicly something "fundamental is wrong"
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Elon Musk is changing Twitter so much, even investor Marc Andreessen is getting upset and complai...
Rapid testing of changes to Twitter demanded by CEO Elon Musk are starting to anger major users and investors.
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Eugene Kim
@eugenekim222
New: Amazon is going after a younger, and likely more affordable, talent pool by limiting entry level software engineering positions to students and recent grads only. Appears to be part of an effort to overhaul its slowing engineering culture.
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Leaked emails show Amazon will only hire students and recent graduates for entry level software...
As CEO Andy Jassy tries to shakeup Amazon's workplace culture, a leaked memo reveals the company is limiting who they consider for entry-level jobs.
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Kali Hays
@HaysKali
It's still feeling a lot like 2022 for people inside Facebook and Snap. Another round of layoffs at both companies is looking more and more certain. Could be another 5%-10% of headcount gone, or more if Q1 doesn't bring a big turnaround. More:
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Workers at Facebook, Snap fear second round of layoffs is on the way
After major tech firms last year cut tens of thousands of jobs, more layoffs may be coming as Facebook and Snap workers brace for a second wave.
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Rosalie Chan (曾奕寧)
@rosaliechan17
Google had an internal town hall meeting today to discuss mass layoffs of 12K.
@tomaxwell
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@HughLangley
& I reported on the biggest takeaways. First off, Googlers asked if execs will take a pay cut. CEO says yes: a 'very significant reduction' in bonuses
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In a tense town-hall meeting with employees, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says executives will take a...
The comments came during an all-hands meeting where top executives fielded questions from shocked employees.
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Kali Hays
@HaysKali
Twitter's international office footprint is shrinking dramatically through closures and evictions. In places where you'd think a platform with a major global user base and Elon's 'super app' ambitions would want or need to be.
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Twitter is closing or getting kicked out of many international offices as Elon Musk skips rent and...
Twitter is leaving some international offices in Europe and Asia amid drastic cost-cutting under its new owner, Elon Musk.
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Eugene Kim
@eugenekim222
New: Amazon removed its renowned “bar raiser” process from some entry level job interviews. It helped shorten the hiring process and expand more quickly. But some say it dropped the talent level. Amazon announced 18K job cuts last week.
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Amazon lowered the hiring bar and some employees don't like it
The company partly abandoned its Bar Raiser program while hiring rapidly. Employees worry it diluted the talent pool and led to layoffs.
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Rosalie Chan (曾奕寧)
@rosaliechan17
The story also reported that X's farm-tech project Mineral could graduate into an "other bet" of Alphabet as soon as this year. Just a few hours after the story got published, Mineral announced it was officially spinning out of X:
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Google's farm-tech moonshot is becoming a full-fledged company as the unit doubles down on more...
Mineral will spin out of X and become a business under the parent company Alphabet, Mineral CEO Elliott Grant wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.
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Kali Hays
@HaysKali
Elon Musk's offer to laid off Twitter employees: 1 month of pay for you to give up rights to any lawsuit/mass arbitration; no bonus you may be owed; no stock payout you may be owed; no speaking about the company ever. Lotta ppl dont see a tough choice...
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A group of laid off Twitter employees finally got paltry severance agreements. Now they must decide...
The workers are being offered one month of severance. Rivals, including Facebook and Snap, gave laid off employees a lot more.
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Ashley Stewart
@ashannstew
The exec leading Microsoft's US military mixed-reality goggle program is leaving, Insider has learned. The exit comes after Microsoft just signed a new deal to design an improved version of the device, which has been plagued by performance issues:
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The Microsoft executive in charge of its troubled mixed-reality military goggles is leaving the...
David Marra, who led Microsoft's mixed-reality-goggle program for the military, is leaving. The unit's contract with the military had been behind.
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Ashley Stewart
@ashannstew
Some Salesforce managers were asked to rank the bottom 10% of their teams, one person familiar with the instructions told Insider, adding to employees' layoff fears. Marc Benioff's comments in an all-hands did not reassure them.
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Salesforce asked some managers to rank their lowest 10% of employees, insider says, as Benioff...
Marc Benioff told employees "we're always going to make changes" when asked if more layoffs were coming in an all-hands meeting, Insider has learned.
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