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I've always wanted to work for Musk, but never felt like I was skilled enough to work on spaceships or cars... But Twitter? I am thinking about applying, so go
by GenerocUsername 4y ago
I've always wanted to work for Musk, but never felt like I was skilled enough to work on spaceships or cars... But Twitter? I am thinking about applying, so go ahead and quit.
- sph 4y agoI want to work on cool things, not specific people. One should let go of idols past their teenage years.
- beernet 4y agoThat's pretty narrow-minded and limits your growth potential tremendously. Oh well, sometimes I forget this website is dominated by engineers...:)
- sgu999 4y agoDepends on your definition of growth...
- bastawhiz 4y agoYour career growth is bounded by the weaknesses of your idols. Being blind to those weaknesses limits your growth potential tremendously.
- beernet 4y agoThat is true and supports my statement. If you're chasing technology over people, from whose weaknesses and mistakes could you learn from, apart from your own?
- JohnTHaller 4y ago80hr+ in-office work weeks with no equity and the threat of being instantly fired for appearing disloyal in Slack or correcting the CEO... sounds fun!
- alfor 4y agoIf you want money, work life balance, comfortable pace it’s not the place. If you want to change the world, are ready to push yourself, work with the most dedicated people, it is. It’s a place for very few. I would really like to work in one of his company, but I don’t think I have the stamina for it.
- lawn 4y agoChange the world? By working for Twitter and whatever whim Musk have next for Twitter's direction? Stop drinking the kool-aid.
- biftek 4y agoTwitter already changed the world a decade ago, all someone would be doing at this point is maybe helping them not file for bankruptcy. But if someone really wants a job with zero security in this economy they should go for it!
- westpfelia 4y agoWhat part would be changing the world? Seems like at the most hes going to eventually do a lap and twitter will end up where it started, just saddled with 900 million dollar a year debt fees. At worst just a place where saying the N word is more acceptable.
- alfor 4y ago"What part would be changing the world?" - Break up the cartel that is mass media + tech giants + democrats - The control on the narrative determine what people think, how they votes, where the world goes. - Making this open and transparent will disrupt many entrenched interests. Huge potential
- etchalon 4y agoYou think Twitter controls the narrative?
- md_ 4y agoI suspect the challenges in running a scalable distributed realtime system like Twitter are fairly significant. And while I don't know how much of Twitter's operating expenses are attributable to the efficiency of that platform, if the new CEO wants to keep expenses lower than revenue, they would potentially be very concerned about how to make that platform efficient, which probably has some really interesting systems engineering challenges.
- replwoacause 4y agoLol. Suit yourself. Enjoy working for a egomaniacal manchild
- listless 4y agoI mean - it wouldn’t be boring. People like adventure. There’s a reason they free solo El Capitan. Those devs are out there.
- snoot 4y agoBizarre. You want to work for him no matter what project?
- Dig1t 4y agoSame! I'll be applying after the dust settles a bit. Sounds fun and exciting.
- greenhearth 4y agoLooks like you're probably going to be working with a lot of entry level people. If you're desperate and ok with eating shit for a year or two, maybe it's a good place to start.
- dazzawazza 4y agoIt's definitely worth working for an utter imbecile at least once. Teaches you to respect decent leaders.
- standardUser 4y agoI could see working for an unstable egomaniac if it meant working on something big and meaningful like space travel or green energy or ending ICE cars. But to work on a glorified comment section? Hard pass.
- marstall 4y agoif you look at it as a highly influential media platform with infinitely hard right-brain challenges around every corner ... many would be drawn to that.
- chasd00 4y agoI could not agree more. If I were single I could see giving most of my time to SpaceX because I believe in what they're doing and what they want to accomplish. Twitter? omfg no.
- memish 4y agoGo for it. It's rare to see such a high alpha opportunity. It's like getting in an early stage startup but in this case they already have network effects.
- cookingrobot 4y agoI thought all employee equity was converted to cash grants. Are they still giving equity in the chance that it goes public again someday? Other than a good salary, where’s the financial upside?
- systemvoltage 4y agoYea, I have friends who work at SpaceX and seems to be doing just fine. The zeitgeist on HN is basically if you ever do anything challenging, don't even think about it, it is bad for your mental health. You probably should just concede in life, don't work hard, regress into resentment for "rich people" and make sure no one else succeeds. What kind of a shitty place has this become? Supposed to be "Hacker News". Not a whole lot of hackers here.
- memish 4y agoIt's says something when the greatest living hacker, George Hotz, now wants to work at Twitter. But so many of the readers of "hacker news" can't even imagine why.
- Apocryphon 4y agoJohn Carmack is still probably the greatest living hacker.
- memish 4y agoI stand corrected.
- systemvoltage 4y agoJohn Carmack on hard work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJitSreSL78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJitSreSL78 I can't see this going well on HN if he said the same thing, verbatim, but posted it as an anonymous comment.
- Apocryphon 4y agoThat's because unlike anonymous commenters like you and I, he has actually substantiated his beliefs.
- systemvoltage 4y ago
- djanogo 4y agoI think Musk played people who quit this week, he used some trigger words in his email to sus out people who are not committed to the company. And the heard mentality kicked in and more people quit.
- crooked-v 4y ago"Played them" how? They'll find another job easily (especially with three months severance) and he's left with a company that's falling apart.
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- tunap 4y agoIf you step back from the trainwreck and look around, the job market is not good anywhere. Some definitely will find fast employment, but > or = quality & remuneration is not a given. For the rest, 3 months may cover on-boarding time, if they strike an offer quickly. This just sucks all the way around. I wonder if EM has a master plan or a brain tumor.
- bastawhiz 4y agoWhat does "committed" look like to you? The promise of working more for the same or less? What upside is there for folks who "commit"? Besides personal gratification, is it even remotely likely that Twitter will do something at this point to pull untold riches from thin air that would somehow benefit these people? From the sound of it, no.
- djanogo 4y agoThe engineers (don't care about non-engineers) who quit need to face the fact that were part of "company" which gave negative returns to both public and private investors for almost a decade. I think "committed" will still be 8 hours/day, like I said he sussed out people who are "triggered" by words or don't love what they do.
- randomfool 4y agoMaintaining services that no one knows anything about, management afraid to let anyone touch anything because no one understands what may break. Everyone griping about the systems they don't know, wanting to re-implement from scratch but not having the time to do so. Sounds like a blast.
- melonlover 4y ago
- coolbreezetft22 4y agoHonestly can't tell if this is in parody or not lol
- diob 4y agoAt this point it's so hard to tell. Humans are weird.