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The entire payroll team resigned yesterday so that's probably correct for the moment.
That's a pretty huge deal if true. How confident are you about that?
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#62Re: If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now
#63The world cup is in two days -- how will Twitter cope with the largest amount of traffic it sees all year? Why fire the majority of employees right before this major event?
Are football fans really a big part of the Twitter user base?
Twitter experiences massive usage surges every year during the World Cup.
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This shows how out of touch he is - fly, right now, possibly across the country, just to please me. He has no concept or care of how much that might cost or disrupt someones life.
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That is part of their job. They are likely well paid for that disruption to their lives (or should be, I honestly don't know).
This is not part of what the engineers signed up for and has nothing to do with being "coddled"
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#65Did Elon lead his other companies this way and we just didn’t know? Or has he suddenly lost his ability to make good decisions?
From what I've read the past few weeks, Elon is mostly just a figurehead at SpaceX at this point and it seems like only his cultural presence (read: making everyone work long hours) is still around. Not sure about Tesla but it seems like it's about the same besides very high level business direction decisions.
I've heard from tesla autopilot engineers that he just comes in and lays everyone off if he doesn't like their approach. The self-driving teams have apparently cycled through engineers like crazy. I'd love to get a current, internal confirmation on this.
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This shows how out of touch he is - fly, right now, possibly across the country, just to please me. He has no concept or care of how much that might cost or disrupt someones life.
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Loyer's and Bankers know that's part of the job depending on where they work. When going over job expectations at all of my jobs traveling with one days' notice was never expected.
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#67Imagine thinking you can judge anything about a developer (especially Senior/Staffs) from screenshots of code. Elon has truly lost the plot.
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That would be nice. I know a senior developer that doesn't actually do anything, he had like 2 small CLs this year. But apparently he can't be fired, so he is just there, increasing work load for everyone else.
How does he get away with doing almost nothing? Why can't he be fired?
Lots of staff devs do nothing but coordinate and plan technology.
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#69Re: If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now
#70>In an email for remote Twitter engineers, Elon Musk says he wants to speak to people on video ("only those who cannot physically get to Twitter HQ are excused") but "if possible, I would encourage you to fly to SF to present in person." He'll be at the office until midnight. https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1593665774744350721
Is this for real? I hope a historian is following Musk around and taking notes, because this will make a delicious movie about hubris and its limits.
Corroborated by Kate Conger from NYT:
>In a follow up email, Musk encouraged people to fly to SF for this.