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Ask HN: Is Twitter Hiring?

9 pointskyleyeats15 comments

There's nowhere I'd like to work more right now than Twitter (I'm aware this might not be the prevailing opinion). Is it possible? Should I try to apply now or wait for things to cool down?

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If you want to work for a teenage edgelord who publicly embarrasses and fires employees on Twitter in front of millions of people for contradicting him (I thought he bought Twitter to save "free speech" though...?), then have at it.

Why are you asking HN this question? Don't they have a careers page or a linkedin account? Or is your question purely performative?

It's easy: They're firing people who don't want to come in to the office. I live in SF, I'm looking for a job and I'm willing to get on the bus. Somewhere, there's an HNer on a team with one of these openings.

I don't have a LinkedIn account because I do work in UX and the decentralized web so it feels hypocritical.

Their careers page screams "pre-Elon" to me: https://careers.twitter.com/

Lol, you're "bus people" in Elon's eyes. And he disparages "the decentralized web." Good luck.

You're the one who cares about his opinions on things, not me. And yeah dweb has kinda been a mess since venture capitalists took a two-billion-dollar shit on us and called it web3. Whatever, we'll bounce back.

Why do you think I care about his opinions? You're the one who wants to work for him. People in his employ who don't simp for him don't last long.

Frankly, I think this is all hilarious. I don't even use twitter. If you want to work for a guy who thinks 2fa is "bloatware," and fires people for disagreeing with him, I guess I can see the appeal of having ring-side seating as the company burns to the ground.

https://www.smartcompany.com.au/industries/information-techn...

I think you care about his opinions because you continue to use them as a rhetorical appeal even after I point out that it doesn't work.

"Simp" is an ugly word that makes you look stupid, misogynistic or homophobic depending on your audience.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. If you're not ready to watch a company collapse around you, then tech is a bad career choice.

> "Simp" is an ugly word that makes you look stupid, misogynistic or homophobic depending on your audience.

Isn't that the direction you want "the conversation" to go? Because that's where your daddy is driving. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

> If you're not ready to watch a company collapse around you, then tech is a bad career choice.

I've been working in this industry for 25 years, child, and I haven't spent a day unemployed.

I mean, I think the word simp is funny but it's not an HN word. I know lots of ugly words that I wouldn't use on HN.

Congrats on the 25-year streak.

Remember that two wrongs don't make a right. If you use offensive slurs to justify your disagreement towards what you perceive is the direction of (possibly more offensive) speech on Twitter that doesn't make you right, it makes you double-wrong.

I agree. If not for startup it would be extremely fun to get on that crazy train. Presumably it's through relationships until they need to volume hire, which seems like it probably won't happen anytime soon.

give it a month, if it's not bankrupt, they might start hiring some (good) people

i think anyone that chooses to work for that [expletive] anytime soon is by definition not "good people". They may be "competent" people... but not "good".

Supporting that behavior, and a platform that he's actively trying to modify to support racist, and anti-semetic speech is by definition, "bad".

> i think anyone that chooses to work for that [expletive] anytime soon is by definition not "good people"

Why not? Twitter is at an exciting turning point (that might end well or bad, but still exciting) and working on the solutions they implemented at scale is something that many engineers are interested in. Before the layoffs, a number of top engineers publicly announced they were leaving Twitter because they not comfortable working under Musk or returning to office, suggesting that there currently might be openings at a very senior level, which, again, is appealing. Musk himself is a controversial character (who I don't personally like), but he isn't a criminal or a dictator and I don't see pressing ethical arguments against working for a company he owns.

> and a platform that he's actively trying to modify to support racist, and anti-semetic speech

When did he say that he specifically wants to support racism or anti-semitism on Twitter?

The post you're replying to is just trying to get around HN's rules for calling people a racist or anti-Semite directly. So instead there's two groups of people, and one thinks this, and I'm not in the other one...

The post is shameful, should have been flagged, and is definitely not worth your thoughtful reply. But thanks for posting it anyway.

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