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by jurassic 4y ago
It's anecdotal, but a friend of mine working on the frontend told me his org of 150 engineers lost 2/3 in the original layoff (leaving 50), and then about 80% of those remaining declined the hardcore ultimatum (leaving 10, a mere
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by jurassic 4y ago
It’s much too soon to judge the impact of the way Elon just discarded 80-90% of Twitter’s technical workforce (layoffs + voluntary departures). The only product change he has successfully implemented is unbanning people who violated the rul
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by jurassic 4y ago
This is not true. The RSU grants converted to cash but maintained the same vesting payment schedule; so effectively the same as RSUs with all upside removed. You don't get the money if you don't stay. And also, the $54 price is no
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by jurassic 4y ago
> Musk wants 20-25% of the workforce remaining to run Twitter. Engineering is cut down to about ~10% or less in many areas. A friend of mine told me their group is down to ~10 from 155 after 2/3 being laid off and about 90% of the r
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by jurassic 4y ago
There are no good Twitter clones because, despite all the memes about "I could build that in a weekend", reproducing Twitter would be a very significant undertaking. And even if you managed to make a good knock-off, there's n
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by jurassic 4y ago
Hundreds (thousands?) of engineers opting for the severance package despite all the gloomy news about layoffs suggests this negative picture is fairly accurate.
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by jurassic 4y ago
The new Twitter basically IS a new company. So you're going to have a learn a new company culture and new colleagues either way.
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by jurassic 4y ago
He is too arrogant to listen to anyone at Twitter who knows. He's been redpilled into believing the employees are all idiots; it's a major Chesterton's fence moment. Now he's paranoid and untrusting of the remaining engi
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by jurassic 4y ago
The guy wanted to get fired, obviously. These people who kamikaze like that are getting free followers, a great story, a ton of inbound job interest, and the pleasure of wasting some of Elon's time (his most valuable and limited resour
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by jurassic 4y ago
> By definition, the existing developers aren't smart enough to do it. You have no evidence to support this. Performance sucks in other countries because product leadership with their hands on the wheel of the company never prioriti
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by jurassic 4y ago
The guy's job was not specifically performance; he didn't fail at anything. Product managers drive roadmaps so even if you know there's been a performance problem for years, you might not get to invest time in fixing it. That
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by jurassic 4y ago
The pettiness is the point. Elon is working hard to dismantle everything and anything that employees enjoy to drive them to leave without severance.
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by jurassic 4y ago
> * It's in "go big or go broke" mode. After a year you're probably going to know which. Better than spending a decade working for a zombie. The people inside seem to already know which it is, and it's only been
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by jurassic 4y ago
Many technical parts of the company had 80% layoffs last week. The people who quit or quiet quit over this senseless RTO mandate will push the company into an unrecoverable brain drain, if they're not already there.
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by jurassic 4y ago
I saw somebody describe Netflix as a library of unfinished books. That sums up my feelings about the platform well. I don't bother, because I don't like to get invested in things that are very likely to be cancelled.
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by jurassic 4y ago
So his commitment to free speech absolutism has lasted an entire week! That's honestly longer than I expected. He's gonna need thicker skin if he's going to be extremely online all the time during this rebuild of the company.
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by jurassic 4y ago
Exactly. He's running it into the ground financially by saddling a low margin business with high-interest debt and also tanking revenue by spooking advertisers. 5D chess.
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by jurassic 4y ago
The company wasn't financially failing until Elon showed up, scared off most of the major advertisers, and stuck the company with $13B in high-interest loans he used to buy it.
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by jurassic 4y ago
I don't think that's clear at all. Social media is a competitive game and if all your competitors are staffing up, you're going to get left in the dust if you don't do the same. Cheap money was helicoptering from the sky
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by jurassic 4y ago
Twitter was not in a financial nosedive until Elon saddled the company with $13B in loans (used to acquire the company) while also tanking revenues by scaring off all the big advertisers who think the platform won't be brand safe in th
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by jurassic 4y ago
When you layoff 75%, that is a change of policy. Lots of people are needed to operate the system as it was.
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by jurassic 4y ago
High-performing employees do not enjoy being abused the way Elon is abusing current Twitter employees. Being good at what you do does not make someone enjoy working 24/7 under threat of firing. They especially don't like doing it
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by jurassic 4y ago
It's shameful is what it is. Richest man in the world trying to pick the pockets of average workers after he abused them and threw them out of a job.
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by jurassic 4y ago
I'm sorry, but this seems like total FUD. Yes, We're coming out of the most insane time ever in the history of the planet to be a software developer, but that doesn't mean there's any reason for new entrants to the indus
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by jurassic 4y ago
> Elon can probably terminate or “manage out” 80%+ of the employees without harming the underlying business meaningfully People keep saying insane stuff like this as if the site just runs itself. That is absolutely not the case.
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by jurassic 4y ago
All the men commentating on this situation are missing the perceived sexism dynamic at the table. She clearly believed he was full of shit and wanted to call him out on it. Her statements about "bluff catcher" align with this. It
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by jurassic 4y ago
I don't know the full context but "threes are good, right?" sounds like a great thing to say if you're playing the character of the dumb blonde at a table full of men who underestimate you. You want them to feel superior
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by jurassic 4y ago
Cheating in chess seems somehow worse than what Armstrong did. There could be a version of cycling where everybody dopes and it becomes a level playing field --- there's still strategy in the rides, they still suffer up the climbs, etc
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by jurassic 4y ago
A lot of my exploration has been centered on ergonomic concerns and exploring different positions and layout sizes. I do think my overall progress has been in the direction of “better for my body”. But I would struggle to quantify it in an
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by jurassic 4y ago
Everyone is different, but I’ve ended up with a lot of keyboards along my journey to find the perfect keyboard for me. I don’t think of myself as a collector even though I’ve probably got $3-4k in keyboard stuff now. There are a lot of vari

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