Twitter lays off its global engineering team from India development center

Twitter is stopping global engineering work at its Bengaluru developer centre, one of its three offices in India. The move will impact less than 20 jobs.

The layoff comes as part of a “normal business review,” Twitter said, adding that it will maintain its presence in Bangalore for other functions. Its office in Bengaluru is its second development centre outside the United States.

The job cut is reportedly mostly affecting the ZipDial team, which joined Twitter as part of the company's acquisition last year. A spokesperson for Twitter India declined to comment on the report, but the company told Reuters that it had "incorporated the technology and talent of ZipDial acquisition across the company." Read more...