| ▲ | raw_anon_1111 16 hours ago |
| Ask the people at Twitter.. |
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| ▲ | cladopa 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| You mean the 80% of the workforce that was fired and the company continued running just fine? Usually just firing 3 to 5% of any company workers have terrible consequences for the company that does it. It does not speak so well about the workers. |
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| ▲ | mattbillenstein 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | He also cut 80% of the traffic... And the fact that it kept running with him willy nilly pulling network cables is a credit to the work they did to make it resilient to failure. | | | |
| ▲ | keeda 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I don't understand this take. Do people think engineers go in to work to turn handcranks to keep the machines running? It's actually a credit to the automation built by the engineers he fired that it kept running! At the time I joked that like Chaos Monkey, we should have an "Elon Monkey" to "fire" arbitrary people by sending them on mandatory vacations with no connectivity to see what falls over. | | |
| ▲ | spullara 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | the people that built the infrastructure that runs twitter left before he showed up. most of it was written by a half dozen people that left around 2016. |
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| ▲ | watwut 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It was significantly worst, could not keep ads, became overrun by bots. The quality went down significantly. And earnings too. |
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| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Ask the people at Twitter The ones with stock options in, now, SpaceX? |
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| ▲ | sroussey 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Poor SpaceX employees whose options got diluted by Twitter. :/ | |
| ▲ | raw_anon_1111 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Stock options aren’t magic. I bet you that the remaining Twitter employees won’t see a higher comp than equivalent employees at BigTech companies between their cash + RSUs when SpaceX IPOs. Aren’t employees also subject to a lock out period where they still can’t sell their stock until $x number of months after an IPO unlike employees of public companies that can sell as soon as they vest? Honest question, I’ve worked for public $BigTech but haven’t been at a company pre IPO | | | |
| ▲ | rconti 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | No, the ones suing his ass. |
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