4 ms·
The assumption you're making is that all of 7,500 of those staff are worthwhile staff who are worthy of being hired. I doubt it. If the indication is true that
by knighthack 4y ago
The assumption you're making is that all of 7,500 of those staff are worthwhile staff who are worthy of being hired. I doubt it.
If the indication is true that Twitter is carrying a lot of deadweight, then Elon's purge is going to make Twitter a very lean and profitable tech company, not unlike Netflix.
- cromwellian 4y agoI think you'll find the most capable engineers at Twitter will be the first to leave, not the deadweight. These people will be able to get a job anywhere, or start a company, and they're not going to sit around and be screamed at by a capricious dictator who doesn't know anything about how long things actually take (and if Elon did, he wouldn't be promising FSD "real soon now" every year) If I was working at Twitter and Elon strolled in and said "Ship this (non-emergency fix) in one week or you're fired", I'd tender my resignation immediately. First, it's ridiculous. Second, we already know he wants to get rid of 1/3 to 2/3rds of the company, so there's no guarantee if you pull 80-hr weeks, weekend all-nighters, that you won't get fired anyway. And honestly, a CEO expecting people to regularly pull crazy hours like that is a red flag.