Musk recruits engineers for “Twitter 2.0” after mass layoffs and resignations
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Going on a hiring frenzy to get people to do the jobs of the people you just fired. Truly clear why he's a genius billionaire.
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Lmao. Incompetent finance person (he holds no physics degree, this was a lie he said) who just was wealthy.
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AmanoJyaku
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Good luck. As seen with Parler et al, there aren't that many talented alt-right assholes in tech.
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Couldn't this just open him up to lawsuits for wrongful termination/lying about cause? Firing tons of engineers for "cost cutting" then trying to hire some cheaper engineers to replace them sound like great grounds for a class action lawsuit for age/tenure discrimination
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"Musk said that the company is done with layoffs and actively recruiting for roles in engineering and sales"
Sales? Nobody sane will take that job, because Musk's made it an impossible task. Anybody who gets hired will fail, and it's won't good on your résumé. "Hired by Twitter. Fired three months later for bad sales".
Sales? Nobody sane will take that job, because Musk's made it an impossible task. Anybody who gets hired will fail, and it's won't good on your résumé. "Hired by Twitter. Fired three months later for bad sales".
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I will admit that I was originally horrified by the thought of Musk taking over Twitter. However, the sheer amount of schadenfreude it has provided me is epic.
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I am sure he is getting "all the best people" now, much better than those he drove off with stick.
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I was wondering what he would do to one-up his current level of incompetence and buffoonery.
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So he is basically trying to replace the old twitter employees with H1B visa holders that got laid off from Amazon, FB, etc so he can exploit them further...
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This coming after he unceremoniously fired half the staff, fired a bunch of people for pointing out the stupid shit he's been doing, had a good chunk of everyone left bail after his "hardcore" mandate, and there are even reports now that he's continued firing people who agreed to his "hardcore" requirement. I'm sure there's a line of applicants starting at Elmer's office door on the 10th floor, snaking all the way around each of the subsequent lower floors, out the door, down the street, around the block, maybe into the nearest BART station and then there are people waiting at various other BART stations waiting for the line to move so they can move to the closer BART station.
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Correct, 6,000 hulls! </futurama Exxon Valdez joke that's close enough to titanic too>
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Emphasis on slinging "great code" and less on design and product management... At this rate, Twitter is going to be a code shop with goals like KLOC written.
As a software guy who wishes many companies took engineering more seriously... This sounds like absolute nightmare fuel. Imagine your worst tech-bro middle manager becoming the head of your company.
As a software guy who wishes many companies took engineering more seriously... This sounds like absolute nightmare fuel. Imagine your worst tech-bro middle manager becoming the head of your company.
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Isn't this going to open him up to additional labor lawsuits, now that it is proven he's fired people without cause?
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You know, all this means Musk paid $44 billion for a brand name, nothing more... Not even the LEGO brand name is worth that much on its own!
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I'm kinda tempted to throw them my resume and ask for an absolutely ludicrous salary. I don't want to waste the time of the poor managers that were forced to fire and now re-hire their entire team, but I wouldn't mind wasting some of Musk's money.
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Musk is looking for people who are willing to work with a start-up mentality, but with none of the possible upside. Nobody, absolutely nobody in their right mind will take him up on this. Long hours with a demanding and unstable boss but without the possibility of a giant payoff at the end.
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Even in the US age discrimination has been illegal and convicted in court, just in this case the age to discriminate against is lower middle aged if I hazard a guess. I would need to read more if age discrimination has been extended to tenure discrimination, but at will probably destroys that
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I remember when Elmo was threatening bankruptcy as a serious possibility. Was that last week, or was it the heady prehistorical before-time of two weeks ago?
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Are they hiring for remote positions? Because Ill gladly have twitter mail me a laptop and coast through to a single paycheck or until the system catches up with me.
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That's the beauty of being the wealthy son of Apartheid era African emerald mine owners. He thinks he can just buy his way out of all his problems. The way he bought a fake claim to be a Tesla founder, the way he bought a fake claim to be an engineer, and the way he thinks he can buy his way out of his colossal mismanagement.
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Reminds me of this story from the guys who developed the Lisa and Macintosh
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt
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Musk isn't going to sleep with you. You don't have to concern troll on his behalf.
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Wanted:
Anyone who actually writes software. Must have a hardcore attitude and be willing to work unpaid overtime in an extremely high pressure environment.
Benefits:
You get to work under the boot of tech mogul genius Elon Musk.
You can harass women and minority co-workers all you want.
If you are lucky Elon might buy you a pony.
Marxists, woke lefty snowflakes and anyone with pronouns need not apply.
Anyone who actually writes software. Must have a hardcore attitude and be willing to work unpaid overtime in an extremely high pressure environment.
Benefits:
You get to work under the boot of tech mogul genius Elon Musk.
You can harass women and minority co-workers all you want.
If you are lucky Elon might buy you a pony.
Marxists, woke lefty snowflakes and anyone with pronouns need not apply.
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Indeed.
Once upon a time, I wrote a messaging system using micnet…because I wanted to. Referred to the the “XENIX tin cans and string system“.
I got better.
Quit writing code of any kind in the 90’s and went into predictive analysis.
No one I know is anywhere close to this trainwreck, or if they are, not admitting it.
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How does he still not get it? Twitter isn't some software problem to be fixed. It is a social network. We've had 20 years of these things and it isn't a coincidence that Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, MySpace, and even Twitter (pre-Musk) converged to similar forms of policies when it comes to regulating and monitoring what users post on their platforms.
Advertisers don't like appearing next to hate speech and pornography, Governments don't like it when you violate their privacy laws or allow illegal content to stay on the platform. Copyright holders don't like it when your platform becomes a hub for piracy. None of these get fixed by better software engineering. The real problem in him not understanding this is innocent people can get hurt by all of this.
Advertisers don't like appearing next to hate speech and pornography, Governments don't like it when you violate their privacy laws or allow illegal content to stay on the platform. Copyright holders don't like it when your platform becomes a hub for piracy. None of these get fixed by better software engineering. The real problem in him not understanding this is innocent people can get hurt by all of this.
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