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Definitely check with Twitter employees before assuming that. On the one hand yeah, maybe. On the other, if I was depressed with how off-course my company had gotten, watching someone come in and clean house / shake things up would be very exciting.
The podcast Hard Fork interviewed (with disguised voices) 2 current twitter employees (both had been there a long time). The GP is right, it's a terrible environment.
What are the chances that Musk composed and sent this email while working remotely? Very high I reckon.
Related, what are the odds that Musk would be cool with any Twitter employee taking multiple other full-time jobs at the same time?
> “over the next few days, the absolute top priority is finding and suspending any verified bots/trolls/spam.” Is this goodbye to @ElonJet? Also, "troll" seems rather nebulous. Is it the end for anyone seen as a troublemaker?
I don't think the intention is to suspend ElonJet since Musk has already explicitly said he made the choice to not suspend it despite the alleged "personal safety risk". Trolls in this case probably refers to accounts that paid for new Twitter Blue and are now impersonating well-known figures/entities. The wording seems consistent with everything going on at Twitter so far, that he's just kinda winging it while every…
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IMHO the ideal situation would be for people to work in their own offices, with doors that closed, and short commutes. Easy to work distraction-free alone, easy to have group meetings and random chats. But real estate costs have made this approach untenable, so something has to give.
> But real estate costs have made this approach untenable, so something has to give. I need a citation here. Big tech was so large and profitable the last decade that thinking it’s real estate costs that led them to open office spaces and not a flawed ideology re: work and collaboration.
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It’s fair to critique someone who just upended the lives of all these people.
I’m not sure if I’m comfortable judging the “fairness of critiquing”, but it’s a business under new ownership. Changes are going to happen.
I'm happy to judge the critiques of that as "fair", and the changes themselves as "irresponsibly implemented".
Ending remote work? Whatever. I disagree, but it's his business.
Ending remote work with 3 hours notice? He's an asshole.
The one-sidedness of the comments in this thread surprise me. If you want to work remotely, don’t work at Twitter. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Musk thinking it’s more beneficial for his employees to work in the office. He has goals and methods of working towards them. He wants likeminded people to work towards those goals. Can you really not think of pros and cons of either situation? To give my opinion, if…
It’s fair to critique someone who just upended the lives of all these people.
Whatsapp had 1B users with far fewer eng, why is Twitter so big? Here is my back of the envelope math of how big I think the company should be for their main offering. Over the past years Twitter has acquired a ton of companies, but I'm going to leave them out of this equation. Eng (250) =========== Backend/Storage: 100 eng Subscriptions: 50 Front-End: 50 eng iOS App: 20 eng Android App: 20 eng UX: 10 Abuse/Moderatio…
What are the chances that Musk composed and sent this email while working remotely? Very high I reckon.
Related, what are the odds that Musk would be cool with any Twitter employee taking multiple other full-time jobs at the same time?
What are the chances that Musk composed and sent this email while working remotely? Very high I reckon.
Hacker News top search result for "Twitter", from two years ago: Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23155647 Forever is a long time...
At the time people thought the pandemic would be forever…