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Pinterest Sacks Workers For Creating Tool To Track Layoffs. Pinterest sacks two engineers who created a tool to track workers laid off in a recent round of cuts. The company, which announced job reductions affecting about 700 roles said that two engineers wrote scripts to access confidential company data, identifying the names and locations of all dismissed employees. This information was then shared more broadly. Pinterest’s CEO Bill Ready previously told employees in a memo that the company was “doubling down on an AI-forward approach.” The engineers’ actions violated Pinterest’s privacy policy, according to a company spokesperson, and the identities of the sacked workers have not been disclosed. The custom script they wrote allowed internal tools, like Slack, to alert when employees were deactivated, revealing the impact of the layoffs. Pinterest has not publicly named the engineers involved, and the BBC has been unable to contact them.
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