Behnam Rezaei had been employed by Twitter since 2017 as its head of product and engineering.
In December, Musk said that Twitter had about 2,000 employees left. As of the end of 2021, there were around 7,500.
One of the final executives from “Twitter 1.0” has left the organisation.
Twitter’s head of product and engineering, Behnam Rezaei, announced his departure from the company in a string of tweets on Tuesday.
In the past 5.5 years, “it has been an absolute honour working with so many fantastic individuals,” he tweeted. With so many stories and wonderful events, it was wilder than I could have ever dreamed.
According to his LinkedIn page, Rezaei joined Twitter as its senior director of engineering in August 2017 and was promoted to product engineering lead in November 2022.
Rezaei left the company, according to Platformer’s Zo Schiffer, who broke the news before Rezaei made it official. Rezaei did not say in his tweets if he was fired or quit.
Elon Musk has fired thousands of Twitter employees since he purchased the firm in late October. However, some have voluntarily departed the company, claiming that Musk has changed the company’s culture and voicing concerns about the site’s future. In Musk’s “Twitter 2.0” plan, employees will be “very hardcore” and will put in “extended hours at high intensity.”
Rezaei is just one of many senior executives who have left the company amid a flight of long-tenured workers.
On Tuesday night, Platformer writer Casey Newton tweeted that Katie Marcotte, a 10-year veteran of Twitter and the position’s interim head of human resources, had made her resignation public.
Some Twitter users speculated that Marcotte might have opted to remain at the business until the end of the severance period for the nearly 50% of Twitter employees who were let go on November 4.
Staff began to leave after not too much time had passed. Sarah Personette, the organization’s chief customer officer, left just one day after Musk’s agreement to purchase Twitter was finalised.
The following week, Dalana Brand, the chief people and diversity officer, resigned. Following around ten years each at the company, Twitter’s VP for real estate and work transformation and SVP for finance both left the company shortly after.
In comparison to the more than 7,500 full-time employees it had by the end of 2021, Musk claimed on a podcast in December that Twitter had around 2,000 people left. To fill the void, Musk has hired some employees from some of his other businesses, such as Tesla and SpaceX.
Former Twitter employees have referred to the business before Musk using the term “Twitter 1.0.” The former employees used the hashtag #LoveWhereYouWorked to convey their recollections of the company and claimed that they “had it good at Twitter 1.0” i
“If product challenges are what got me to Twitter, people were what got me to stay,” Rezaei tweeted. “Twitter had and still has some of the brightest people in the industry.”