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Email from Elon to the Engineering Team

36 points by r721 4y ago

r721 4y ago
Also https://twitter.com/kateconger/status/1593649550446628866 https://twitter.com/kateconger/status/1593649550446628866
shippintoboston 4y ago
Thoughts are with all the H1-B workers who have to endure working for this psychopath until they can line something else up.
faefox 4y ago
Is he going to reimburse employees for these last-minute flights to SF? Also, I thought the offices were closed until Monday?
mikkergp 4y ago
Im starting to think he’s enjoying this.
- ElijahLynn 4y ago
  There is an SMS text that was leaked as part of discovery for the merger that did quote something like "sharpen your knives boys" which seemed to be in reference to the mass purge. This tone seemed to lack empathy for the disruption this was going to cause in people's lives. EDIT: Oh, that wasn't Musk it was Jason Calacanis (angel investor) “Day zero,” Calacanis wrote. “Sharpen your blades boys. 2 day a week Office requirement = 20% voluntary departures.” https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/elon-musk-texts-discovery-twitter/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/elon-musk-texts-discovery-...
firstSpeaker 4y ago
Is this a joke to him to play with people's mental health? How can people fly or commute or travel to SF on short notice. People have families, kids, personal commitment and lives out of the show he is running. Even if someone is the most brilliant engineer with the best solution to requirements it does not necessarily means they have 10k lines of code solving hard leetcode to please him. I feel for everyone living through these hard times.
- bongoman37 4y ago
  Having worked around some folks similar to Elon, they literally do not think family etc matters and since for them there is a small army taking care of everything like child care and so on, they assume it is similar for other people. This is another reason, young people are preferred in hiring, no other commitments means they do not have to plan around anything like spouse or kids or old parents and so on.
ytpete 4y ago
Last night he said the Twitter office would be locked until Monday. This morning he tells everyone to be there in person this afternoon anyway. Then sends a follow-up email encouraging remote employees to fly into SF today on just a few hours notice. And he said it may take until midnight (on a Friday) to talk to everyone. Also, didn't they already do the "print out the last 6 months of your code to prove yourself" thing once before like... only a week ago? What new info do they expect to come from this?
- abracadaniel 4y ago
  He said 2pm to midnight. That’s 600 minutes of interview time to cover all remaining engineers. Those lower estimates of remaining employees start to look a little more plausible. Even with a ridiculously brief 2min assessment, he could only cover 300 engineers
- pcthrowaway 4y ago
  When he realized he couldn't get out of the deal, he must have decided to plead insanity.
ytpete 4y ago
Larger discussion thread over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33659197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33659197

36 points by r721 4y ago

r721 4y ago

Also https://twitter.com/kateconger/status/1593649550446628866 https://twitter.com/kateconger/status/1593649550446628866

shippintoboston 4y ago

Thoughts are with all the H1-B workers who have to endure working for this psychopath until they can line something else up.

faefox 4y ago

Is he going to reimburse employees for these last-minute flights to SF? Also, I thought the offices were closed until Monday?

mikkergp 4y ago

Im starting to think he’s enjoying this.

ElijahLynn 4y ago
There is an SMS text that was leaked as part of discovery for the merger that did quote something like "sharpen your knives boys" which seemed to be in reference to the mass purge. This tone seemed to lack empathy for the disruption this was going to cause in people's lives. EDIT: Oh, that wasn't Musk it was Jason Calacanis (angel investor) “Day zero,” Calacanis wrote. “Sharpen your blades boys. 2 day a week Office requirement = 20% voluntary departures.” https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/elon-musk-texts-discovery-twitter/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/elon-musk-texts-discovery-...

firstSpeaker 4y ago

Is this a joke to him to play with people's mental health? How can people fly or commute or travel to SF on short notice. People have families, kids, personal commitment and lives out of the show he is running. Even if someone is the most brilliant engineer with the best solution to requirements it does not necessarily means they have 10k lines of code solving hard leetcode to please him. I feel for everyone living through these hard times.

bongoman37 4y ago
Having worked around some folks similar to Elon, they literally do not think family etc matters and since for them there is a small army taking care of everything like child care and so on, they assume it is similar for other people. This is another reason, young people are preferred in hiring, no other commitments means they do not have to plan around anything like spouse or kids or old parents and so on.

ytpete 4y ago

Last night he said the Twitter office would be locked until Monday. This morning he tells everyone to be there in person this afternoon anyway. Then sends a follow-up email encouraging remote employees to fly into SF today on just a few hours notice. And he said it may take until midnight (on a Friday) to talk to everyone. Also, didn't they already do the "print out the last 6 months of your code to prove yourself" thing once before like... only a week ago? What new info do they expect to come from this?

abracadaniel 4y ago
He said 2pm to midnight. That’s 600 minutes of interview time to cover all remaining engineers. Those lower estimates of remaining employees start to look a little more plausible. Even with a ridiculously brief 2min assessment, he could only cover 300 engineers
pcthrowaway 4y ago
When he realized he couldn't get out of the deal, he must have decided to plead insanity.

ytpete 4y ago

Larger discussion thread over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33659197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33659197