Bonus:
Twitter Ex-Employees Job Search Will Be a Hoot
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The whining emanating from the ranks of the departing Twitter employees (based on some samples seen on the platform and in stories at Ace of Spades and Insty) seems quite revelatory about the “work life” formerly enjoyed by these entitled little snowflakes. What a country club they had going. Of course, they and the tech blogs universally predict their departure will cause the whole thing to fail. I expect they will be proved wrong rather quickly.
Yeah, BEE good for Twitter.
I love it. Elon. You are da’ mon!
If any speak Mandarin, they’re all set for a job with the Chinese security services. Might even know a few people, don’t you think?
Brian Suits of KKTH Radio Seattle has done some research on these Twitter employees: the largest group, about 2000 of them, average age 24 and earn $182,000 in “marketing.” The next largest group work in “human resources” and earn an average salary of $178k. For virtually all of them, this is been the first job out of college.
And now that Amazon is laying off in Seattle area estimates of 7000 to 10,000 IT workers, they are due for a very harsh reality-check on what the IT-flooded job marketplace pays entry-level people in a Biden economy.
Oh: by the way, my Kiplinger business letter just arrived – it stated that large corp third quarter growth was -4%. 2023 first quarter growth for large corps is expected to be -1%.
Steve Phoenix.
Well…they could organize hit and run shoplifting raids. It seems to me that that line of work is similar to their old tasks at Twitter. Robbery.
I’ll demur on the shaldenfreude. Still, there was something very peculiar at that place. Mean cash compensation for those in ‘computer and mathematical occupations’ in the San Francisco commuter belt is around $139,000 per year, that in the adjacent San Jose computer belt about $153,000. ‘Marketing specialists’ and the like are paid a mean of $108,000 and $119,000 respectively. HR specialists are paid a mean of $95,000 and $102,000. Note, the mean would be paid to someone about 42 years old who had been building his skill set for 20 years.
The other strange structuring of salary at pre-Elon Twitter, is that IT engineers, the people who do the actual computer coding/programming/functioning “work,” according to Suits, earned further down the chain about +/- $150k.
The question is why there were so many highly paid marketing specialists, but pre-Elon Twitter still couldn’t get Twitter to turn an actual profit, and why there was such a large number, somewhere between 1000-2000, of “HR specialists”
@Steve Phoenix: “…and why there was such a large number, somewhere between 1000-2000, of “HR specialists”
Great question. My former employer, Fortune 50 with over 200k employees in 50 states and worldwide, did not have that many “HR specialists.” We had way too many HR people in any event, but it was less than 1,000, and that figure includes the labor relations staff as well as generic HR. Even knowing that an HR manager in California faces legal and regulatory challenges not found in most states, and that such challenges do generate a ton of extra work, I can’t imagine enough real work existing to support that many HR specialists.