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Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Post by kweingar »

xyzzy_plugh wrote: post #596

A great attempt to dodge vesting schedules and escape doling out severance. Even if they convince many engineers to quit willingly, one presumes that the next step is rounds of layoffs with cause . California is at-will, but notoriously anal regarding mass-layoffs. My serious question is, regardless of with or without cause, surely some employment attorneys are licking their lips at the stack of prospective cases the…

> If I was a Twitter engineer, I'd be trying to figure out how to maximize my severance package right about now.

Absolutely. This is how I would spend every minute of my workdays until the eventual layoff. It’s a degrading experience for sure, but it could pay off big.

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Post by Aeolun »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #320
Aeolun wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

New people regularly join our company and evaluate our code. Why do you think you couldn’t do that without joining?

How long does it take them to be fully productive in the systems?

About 6 months. That doesn’t mean they don’t instantly have a general idea of the quality of the codebase. The amount of WTF’s decreases significantly after the first 2 months (when they give up and accept that that is just how it is).

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Post by blindriver »

xyzzy_plugh wrote: post #596

A great attempt to dodge vesting schedules and escape doling out severance. Even if they convince many engineers to quit willingly, one presumes that the next step is rounds of layoffs with cause . California is at-will, but notoriously anal regarding mass-layoffs. My serious question is, regardless of with or without cause, surely some employment attorneys are licking their lips at the stack of prospective cases the…

Twitter is a private company now. There are no more stocks to vest, so the idea that this is to dodge vesting schedules doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Post by kalabilla »

blindriver wrote: post #603
xyzzy_plugh wrote: post #596

A great attempt to dodge vesting schedules and escape doling out severance. Even if they convince many engineers to quit willingly, one presumes that the next step is rounds of layoffs with cause . California is at-will, but notoriously anal regarding mass-layoffs. My serious question is, regardless of with or without cause, surely some employment attorneys are licking their lips at the stack of prospective cases the…

Twitter is a private company now. There are no more stocks to vest, so the idea that this is to dodge vesting schedules doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Private companies have stocks. They are just on traded on exchange

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Post by seattle_spring »

moralestapia wrote: post #517
lupire wrote: post #470

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would anyone take him seriously when he is making a massive embarrassment of himself on his first day on the job (after doing the same for months leading up to the takeover?) Musk didn't know the bio of the CEO of the company he was buying (who was also former CTO, engineer, Stanford PhD (thesis topic: making decisions under uncertainty), IPhO gold medalist, top tier Indian tech student) and called him a non-tech…

>Why would anyone take him seriously [...] Well, they should, he is their boss now.

The incoming CEO of the last company I worked for had a similar opinion. Everyone left and he was left floundering.

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Post by skellington »

abc_lisper wrote: post #79
ipqk wrote: post #65

I'd be pissed off if I were a TSLA stock owner. Is Twitter paying Tesla to contract out these employees for their work? Otherwise, it's tons of thousands of dollars Tesla is pissing away on behalf of the CEO's side-hustle.

I’m a TSLA holder and I don’t mind at all. The everyday minutiae don’t concern me as long as the big picture for Tesla is in focus and with in reach

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Post by 7e »

blindriver wrote: post #603
xyzzy_plugh wrote: post #596

A great attempt to dodge vesting schedules and escape doling out severance. Even if they convince many engineers to quit willingly, one presumes that the next step is rounds of layoffs with cause . California is at-will, but notoriously anal regarding mass-layoffs. My serious question is, regardless of with or without cause, surely some employment attorneys are licking their lips at the stack of prospective cases the…

Twitter is a private company now. There are no more stocks to vest, so the idea that this is to dodge vesting schedules doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

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Post by chrismarlow9 »

Sounds fun on both ends, and I don't mean that sarcastically, assuming as a Twitter dev I get the chance to defend my code. But in the end I think this will just point to the same thing devs always holler about which is technical debt.

I'd be more interested to see the difference between the code and the engineers signaling technical debt in areas via email or chat. No idea how to quantify that though.

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Post by cookingrobot »

blindriver wrote: post #603
xyzzy_plugh wrote: post #596

A great attempt to dodge vesting schedules and escape doling out severance. Even if they convince many engineers to quit willingly, one presumes that the next step is rounds of layoffs with cause . California is at-will, but notoriously anal regarding mass-layoffs. My serious question is, regardless of with or without cause, surely some employment attorneys are licking their lips at the stack of prospective cases the…

Twitter is a private company now. There are no more stocks to vest, so the idea that this is to dodge vesting schedules doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

According to blind, vesting schedules are converted to cash grants on the same schedule.

So essentially there is still vesting, and no acceleration for regular employees.

Curious to hear if anyone knows otherwise.

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Twitter-Accelerated-Vesting-L...

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Post by plazmatic »

shantanu77 wrote: post #552

Musk has extraordinary capability of extracting every bit of potential a person can deliver. Either you work crazy at your 200% or you are worthless and the company is not for you. Twitter will see lots of layoffs, massive restructuring - some unknown people being promoted for top roles, but end result will be better financial. I am not sure Twitter will remain the same as it is. Lots of people think Elon is not good…

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