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."

“Engineering is a key part of our global company and we continue to focus our programs and efforts on improving the core product experience for our users worldwide. As part of our normal business review, we have decided to stop the global engineering work at the Bangalore development center,” a spokesperson told Mashable India.

“We thank the impacted individuals, less than 20 persons, for their valuable contributions and are doing as much as we can to provide them a respectful exit from our company. We have offices in three locations in India: Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. Only the global engineering workforce in Bangalore is affected, we will continue to maintain a presence in Bangalore for other functions,” the spokesperson added.

Twitter acquired ZipDial, a Bangalore-based startup which offers offline messaging solution, last year. Its most popular service allows a user to call a number, hang up before incurring any charges, and then get information about the place they called via text message. ZipDial had roughly 50 employees before Twitter acquired it.