Twitter’s head of product and engineering resigned
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> Similarly, on Monday Behnam Rezaei, senior director of software engineering at Twitter, sent a note to his team acknowledging “big changes” were coming. "I think most important change is going to be cultural change," he said, according to a copy of the email obtained by Platformer. “Some good, some bad.”
> Rezaei tried to rally the troops, telling engineers to focus on shipping code as quickly as possible:
> "So if you ask what should I do now: do good engineering work. Write code. Fix bugs, keep the site up. I know the criteria for being at Twitter is that. It’s not working on a fancy project for Elon. The good culture change is, it’s shipping and delivering. I encourage you to rotate more on coding and shipping, and less on documentation, planning, strategy etc. If you want to be in a “special” group this week, code and ship 5x as [much as] before. Building what Elon asks or thinks sexy is not the criteria. Being impactful and changing product and helping our users is the criteria. So you don’t need commands from me. You are all software engineers. You know what needs to be written and improved. Do it. You are in charge."
and: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-19/musk-s-tw...
> During the early days of the transition, Musk’s right-hand men were everywhere: (David) Sacks, who worked with Musk at PayPal Holdings Inc., discussed ideas with Twitter’s product team, while (active) Calacanis, a former scout for the venture firm Sequoia Capital, met with advertisers and marketers. (Sriram) Krishnan, who previously worked at Twitter, helped Musk identify product and engineering leaders — Behnam Rezaei, who has been running engineering under Musk, had worked closely with Krishnan. All three were seen in the office in the days immediately after the deal closed.