> On the other hand, there is the "salt water theory" of how this is going to play out (and the article I think proves that too): If you turn up the heat, the g

> On the other hand, there is the "salt water theory" of how this is going to play out (and the article I think proves that too): If you turn up the heat, the good guys will leave first. I.e. the water will evaporate, leaving only a salty brine: It could be the reverse. If you take at face value that twitter is trying to refocus on actual improvements to the product as opposed to whatever the thousands of engineers were doing before, then some people may be attracted to that work environment. In my experience the best engineers have left jobs because they're bored, not because of a lack of perks or money. A lot of people leave a lot of money, ridiculous benefits and a 20 hours work week by leaving FAANG so they can work on something meaningful, even if it is a CRUD app. At least they can point to something and say "I did that". There's a lot to do at twitter that was not a priority in the last decade. Things that seem like bugs (e.g. mobile app looking at a tweet and it disappears or gets pushed away), to search being awful (can't search specific users or before/after or exclude or anything really, its just a black box that sometimes works), to opening up and consolidating the API with the developer API, to actually getting rid of bots. These aren't necessarily hard problems. This is exactly what a startup would be doing and would definitely drive engagement. But for some reason Twitter has deprioritized these for ... other things? But now it looks like it might actually be an exciting place to work.