Fired without any reason: Former Twitter engineer on H1B visa

looking for job, says many on parental leave terminated

After multiple rounds of layoffs, Musk recently told employees that there would be no more layoffs and
that the company would start hiring for important positions. But that didn’t turn out well.

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Sneha Saha
New Delhi, UPDATED: Nov 28, 2022 12:30 IST

In Short

Elon Musk took over as the Twitter boss couple of weeks ago.
 Till now, s, he has fired thousands of employees globally.

Musk recently told employees that there would be no more layoffs.

By Sneha Saha: Last month changed everything at Twitter. Ever since Elon Musk took over
as the Twitter boss, he has fired thousands of employees globally, dismissed various
departments, and asked the remaining employees to be ready for "hardcore" work culture.
After multiple rounds of layoffs, Musk recently told employees that there would be no more
layoffs and that the company would start hiring for important positions. But that didn’t turn
out well. Musk fired some more employees on Thursday without any prior notice.
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Among the freshly fired employees is Yiwei Zhuang, who was a software engineer at
Twitter and was a part of the firm for over three years. Zhuang took to LinkedIn to share his
story and how Musk’s Twitter fired him with immediate effect. “My employment is
terminated immediately with no reason today by Elon's Twitter 2.0 team before
Thanksgiving. Many employees are fired today as well, including those who are on
parental leave,” Zhuang wrote. To recall, during the company-wide mass layoff, Twitter fired
an 8-month pregnant woman, Rachel Bonn, who worked as a Content Marketing Manager
at the firm.
Zhuang, who just got fired by Musk’s Twitter 2.0 is looking for a job on LinkedIn. "I have 4-
year working experience in backend and distributed services in live streaming services
using Golang/AWS and Ads recommendation system/Machine learning infra using Java,"
he wrote.

Zhuang said that he is on H1B visa, in other words, he has limited time to look for a job. "I
am on an H1B visa and have only 60 days to start a new job. I am looking for a
Software/Machine Learning Engineer role immediately," Zhuang’s post read.
Amid the sudden layoffs, Twitter has started a fresh round of recruitment. As per the
company’s careers page, Twitter is looking for positions including senior engineering
manager and administrative business partner in the United States. As per the official
website, there are no vacancies available in India at the moment, but Musk, during a recent
meeting with Twitter employees, showed interest in hiring engineers from India, Japan, and
Brazil. Some media reports suggest that Twitter's HR team is actively hiring for engineering
and sales roles globally. In fact, responding to one of the Twitter users recently, Musk said
that "world-class software aces are joining Twitter".