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I would love to listen in on those negotiations. If you’re reading this, and Twitter wants you back, I hope you ask for a contract with a year’s pay in advance

I would love to listen in on those negotiations. If you’re reading this, and Twitter wants you back, I hope you ask for a contract with a year’s pay in advance, due before returning to work, at 10x your prior rate. After all, you must be one of those 10x developers if Elon is willing to eat crow and ask you to come back.

forgetfulness 4y ago
Just having those emails in hand would be almost a voucher for negotiating higher salary when looking for another job, they certify that you were one of the people that were vital for Twitter to run.
onion2k 4y ago
Being asked to go back just means it's cheaper to get you to return than it is to recruit someone to do your old job.
- BrentOzar 4y ago
  > Being asked to go back just means it's cheaper to get you to return than it is to recruit someone to do your old job. Only at your old rate.
- seadan83 4y ago
  For software, the existing employees will always be cheaper. It has been argued that an engineers value is captured most in their mental model of the system. EG: Want a new feature in a system I built and maintained? Boom, here are the touch points, the gotchyas, and here is the roadmap to get if done in three days. Anyone new to that system will first say, cool, give me about 3 weeks to learn this code, and then maybe another 7 while we implement it and work through all of the trip wires we did not know about.
- kaba0 4y ago
  And firing them was just an insanely dumb thing significantly increasing expenses.
akmarinov 4y ago
There’s likely no negotiations. More of a “could you come back please?” And you either accept because you don’t have anything lined up or tell them to go pound sand
- kaba0 4y ago
  Well, if they are indeed that important to the company, then they do have quite a large leverage.
- Cthulhu_ 4y ago
  I'm 99% confident that anyone with Twitter on their resumè will have no problems landing another job.
  - luxcem 4y ago
    100% confident that anyone who are called back because they were essential will have absolutely no problems

forgetfulness 4y ago

Just having those emails in hand would be almost a voucher for negotiating higher salary when looking for another job, they certify that you were one of the people that were vital for Twitter to run.

onion2k 4y ago

Being asked to go back just means it's cheaper to get you to return than it is to recruit someone to do your old job.

BrentOzar 4y ago
> Being asked to go back just means it's cheaper to get you to return than it is to recruit someone to do your old job. Only at your old rate.
seadan83 4y ago
For software, the existing employees will always be cheaper. It has been argued that an engineers value is captured most in their mental model of the system. EG: Want a new feature in a system I built and maintained? Boom, here are the touch points, the gotchyas, and here is the roadmap to get if done in three days. Anyone new to that system will first say, cool, give me about 3 weeks to learn this code, and then maybe another 7 while we implement it and work through all of the trip wires we did not know about.
kaba0 4y ago
And firing them was just an insanely dumb thing significantly increasing expenses.

akmarinov 4y ago

There’s likely no negotiations. More of a “could you come back please?” And you either accept because you don’t have anything lined up or tell them to go pound sand

kaba0 4y ago
Well, if they are indeed that important to the company, then they do have quite a large leverage.
Cthulhu_ 4y ago
I'm 99% confident that anyone with Twitter on their resumè will have no problems landing another job.
- luxcem 4y ago
  100% confident that anyone who are called back because they were essential will have absolutely no problems