Honestly, the whole of Twitter should just walk out and wildcat strike until Wednesday morning. The worst he can do is fire you.
To date there's:
- Reports that he had Tesla engineers with him when they interviewed some Twitter engineeers. Currently the biggest arguments against that are: Tesla engineers belong to Tesla (we have no idea in what capacity they were they) and "that's an ineffective strategy to review a codebase" (we have no idea if that's what they were actually doing.
- Reports that he gave a team until Nov 7th to roll out a paid subscription
- Reports that he may lay people off (unverified)
- Carried in a sink.
None of these things are particularly unreasonable - Twitter owes something like 1 billion in debt payments this year and brings in close to $500 million, so layoffs were probably coming regardless.
I don't really see what the big deal with Musk buying Twitter is, except as cover for being mad about him unbanning people.
> None of these things are particularly unreasonable
Six business days to come up with a system to process $6m per month of income.
Nothing unreasonable indeed...
Twitter (and really, BigCo in general) engineers are accustomed to their foosball tables, catered meals, wine bars, beer taps, rooftop gaming session, and endless meetings and code reviews.
It's possible that Musk is trying to set the reasonable expectation that a total comp package worth $400k should be exchanged for actual productivity, rather than playtime and busywork.
I too thought I could rewrite twitter and instagram in 10 days with a few JS and PHP framework when I was fresh out of uni
Tell me you've never been hired at Twitter without telling me you've never been hired at Twitter, lol. Every company has some dead weight, sure, but what you describe isn't remotely applicable to most people.
Which single developer can rollout payments globally in 6 days? How much time do they set aside to ensuring regulatory compliance with dozens of jurisdictions that have occasionally conflicting rules?
Would you want to be in that kind of situation?
The difference is that usually it's not covered minute-by-minute on all the major news outlets.
No one would want to be in this situation yet it happens every day. Where I'm at, new VPs take over our division every couple years and every time they reorganize everything, rename everything, promote some people, lay off a bunch of people, bring in their "people", change polices and procedures, etc. It sucks but it's part of business as far as I can tell. If I walked out every time this happened I think I'd be hard pressed to keep a steady job.
As a salaried SE, why would you care? Or is that about SV's love for paying in stock instead of cash?
> then within days, is threating 25% layoffs.
That's an unconfirmed rumor at best, a lie most likely.
> None of these things are particularly unreasonable
I see you're not an engineer according to your bio. Can you explain how you came to the conclusion that having one work week to roll out a brand new feature is reasonable so I can tell you how completely wrong you are?
You know this?
New ownership seems to have changed that, not only in the things that were rumored they would do, but also in the abysmal communication during the whole thing.
This kind of thing happens all the time and it's always a risk, but that doesn't mean that people have to like it.