From my own observations I think the list of people was in add-only mode for a while and showed a lot of folks that were no longer part of the org. Nothing serious happened to DFINITY’s size
No relation since we didn’t have a mass-firing 
From chatting with our recruiters a week or so ago I can happily say that our list of open positions is in general very accurate, so it is showing positions we are actively interviewing candidates we’re interested in. I’m sure some of them can be a few days out of date at times, but our recruiters (IMO rightfully) really take pride in being honest and accurate with all messaging.
Not sure myself, as a lot of them don’t touch my team too closely. But I don’t think there’s any big deviations. Again, we didn’t lose a bunch of staff, and the scalability issues are being addressed by the relevant experts, not by everyone. Since this is mostly an issue of scheduling, it’s mostly execution folks. Cryptographers, for example, are completely uninvolved and can keep working on whatever else they would be working on otherwise
We’re not used to this kind of event, so I think it’s just a matter of nobody internally thinking of it. But Manu is on it.