Menotti Minutillo, a 37-year-old from Long Island, considered Twitter one of his favorite places to work. He was employed in the engineering department there from 2012 to 2016, a period of explosive growth for the tech company. There was a sense that the company was a part of something big; it called to him. The work was meaningful, the money was good and stable, he liked his boss, and there were opportunities for growth. After a stint at Uber, he returned to Twitter in 2020 as a product manager. Critically for Minutillo, he believed in the company’s core values : “Communicate fearlessly to build trust,” was one. “I very much enjoyed my time there,” he said. But last November, Minutillo was one of more than 3,700 people abruptly laid off after Elon Musk acquired the company and became chief executive.  “Companies are in the business of making money, ultimately, despite whatever values they talk about, or the big mission of the company,” Minutillo told me.…