Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
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#2Apparently He laid off the data engineering team. That term is pretty vague, anyone know what they do?
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-...
Edit: this may have been a prank.
Re: Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
#3Apparently He laid off the data engineering team. That term is pretty vague, anyone know what they do? https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-... Edit: this may have been a prank.
That is discussed in this thread, but it's not clear what's going on with that story (comments are saying it was a prank, and the originally submitted tweet has been deleted):
Departing Twitter employees say layoffs have started as Elon Musk takes over - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374597 - Oct 2022 (108 comments)
Re: Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
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Re: Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
#5Apparently He laid off the data engineering team. That term is pretty vague, anyone know what they do? https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-... Edit: this may have been a prank.
Not specific to Twitter but as I understand it. Generally a data engineering team will setup the pipelines and ETL processes to turn transactional data into aggregate data necessary to run analytics.
Re: Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
#6Apparently He laid off the data engineering team. That term is pretty vague, anyone know what they do? https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-... Edit: this may have been a prank.
That sounds like the move of someone who wants specifically-selected very loyal people designing systems which would tell you what's actually happening on the platform.
Re: Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
#7Apparently He laid off the data engineering team. That term is pretty vague, anyone know what they do? https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-... Edit: this may have been a prank.
This might have been a prank.
Re: Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
#8It can be great for freedom of speech. Hopefully, it won't distract Elon too much from SpaceX, Tesla, and other important work.
I still don't get how he managed to be CEO of multiple high-complexity companies. It's already not easy to be CEO of just one.
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#9Prediction: Brain drain at Twitter begins as Elon starts enacting unpopular policies. Valuation tanks. Morale becomes non-existent and Twitter slowly starts to fade from existence while competitors begin to fill the void. I give it 3-5 years before it's gone full husk.
Re: Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
#10Apparently He laid off the data engineering team. That term is pretty vague, anyone know what they do? https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-... Edit: this may have been a prank.
Who knows if that rumor is true, but it would be another red flag with Elon's approach. I can understand clearing out the old leadership team on day 1, but how quickly could Musk possibly know that there is no one on this team that could provide value to Twitter with different management or in some other role? Shooting first and asking questions later is not a good approach to managing a billion-dollar company.