Tough-talking Twitter diversity exec brought in to shake-up company's 'kind but stagnant' culture has driven snowflake employees to TEARS

A Twitter executive hired to shake up the tech firm's 'kind but stagnant' culture left staff in tears with his tough talk and meetings where they were encouraged to slate each other. 

Chief Design Officer Dantley Davis, 43, was accused of making workers feel 'psychologically unsafe' after blasting poor work, firing staffers he was unhappy with - and sending scathing criticism of them to their former bosses.

Davis, a top design executive with prior experience at Netflix, Yahoo! and PayPal, was hired by Twitter in 2019 as vice president of design, and has since been prom.

He has spearheaded a number of product innovations, including audio tweets and prompts to encourage reading an article before sharing it.