Days after Elon Musk laid off half of Twitter’s workforce last Friday, an employee who escaped layoffs began receiving messages on LinkedIn.
The employee, a veteran engineer, said he received 40 messages from recruiters in the last week, from a variety of companies operating in a variety of fields—artificial intelligence and machine learning, crypto, fintech, and “even some companies that don’t normally do this. fit the definition of technology.”
The first message came on Nov. 2, the day a number of top Twitter executives announced their departures, and the flood hasn’t stopped since. “Having Twitter on your resume is a very, very strong signal to a lot of people,” the employee said. “[Recruiters are] definitely interested, even during all these supposed hiring freezes.”
Musk’s decision to give Twitter a massive haircut was terrible news for those affected — as it was for the 11,000 Meta Platforms employees laid off this week, and another 95,000 who have lost their jobs in the industry of technology in 2022, according to a Layoffs.fyi count. But it’s a godsend for industry recruiters, who are eagerly scrambling to nab top talent from the world’s most prominent social media firms.
