By bizn_fun 
“This was a clear violation of Pinterest policy and of their former colleagues’ privacy,” the spokesperson added.
A script in this sense is essentially computer code written to automate a task within existing software or tweak its functionality for a specific purpose.
The script written by the Pinterest engineers was aimed at internal tools used at the company for employees to communicate, according to a person familiar with the firings who asked not to be identified.
The person said the script created an alert for which employee names within a tool like the team communication platform Slack were being removed or deactivated, giving some insight into who at the company was impacted by the layoffs.
The identities of the two sacked engineers are not publicly known and the BBC has been unable to contact them.
The technology industry has seen waves of layoffs in recent years.
Checking Slack and other internal tools for coworkers who disappear from channels of conversation is a common way for people to learn who is no longer working at a company.
In the same week that Pinterest announced it was laying off workers, Amazon cut 16,000 roles in its second round of redundancies in three months.
Earlier this year, Meta also laid off several hundred employees.
Along with Amazon and Meta, Google, Microsoft and others have significantly cut their workforces.
Across the entire tech industry, an estimated 700,000 people have been laid off over the last four years, according to Layoffs.fyi, which tracks all reports of such cuts.