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I can’t imagine many engineering teams that would hold up very well if 75% of the team vanished —- you would lose so much knowledge of your own codebase for sta
by barbariangrunge 4y ago
I can’t imagine many engineering teams that would hold up very well if 75% of the team vanished —- you would lose so much knowledge of your own codebase for starters, and morale would be a disaster. 90% of those who remained would start thinking of switching jobs out of pure pessimism.
Then again, I bet it won’t happen. The actual cuts will be far smaller once it’s actually time to do it… Unless his finances are too strained I guess
- x86x87 4y agoBy the time they make the cuts everyone that can find another job will be gone
- helsinkiandrew 4y ago700 have already resigned since Musk spoke to everyone in the company in September. I'm guessing there will be need to be a very good share option scheme to keep those that stay, but Twitter isn't a startup - it already has a $44B valuation and lots of expensive debt. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-exodus-turnover-acquisition-2022-9?r=US&IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-exodus-tur...
- SilasX 4y ago>I can’t imagine many engineering teams that would hold up very well if 75% of the team vanished —- you would lose so much knowledge of your own codebase for starters, If so, then, to be blunt, that means their documentation was crap and they had unnecessary choke points to begin with. We need to stop normalizing tribal knowledge.