Would you work at Twitter now?
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Serious question, without trying to be too political. This isn't really about politics, but workplace quality. I'm just asking you, as a developer, would you put up with working in that atmosphere? By all appearances, from the little I've seen, I'd have been out the door before the ink was dry on Elon's buyout. Not because of who he is or what he believes, but because of how he runs things. My guess is his top talent has already fled.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
interesting read thru the responses. Codewitch. I agree with you. I would not work for Elon. He abuses people. There was a job 5+ years ago at Space-X. I was checking it out. I figured I was more than good enough to do the job. But the more I read one line in the job description the more I didn't want to work there. "You will be required to work extra hours in order to hit deadlines" Seriously, Ummm hard pass. I agree with the people who said Twitter's work ethic before Musk was horrible. True, but a hard swing the other way is not going to help either. I honestly think people (myself for sure) need something to do. They need a job. IT is part of being a balanced human being. But 30 to 40 is plenty of hours to work each week. The rest should be spent being good to those around you and to yourself.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Serious question, without trying to be too political. This isn't really about politics, but workplace quality. I'm just asking you, as a developer, would you put up with working in that atmosphere? By all appearances, from the little I've seen, I'd have been out the door before the ink was dry on Elon's buyout. Not because of who he is or what he believes, but because of how he runs things. My guess is his top talent has already fled.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
I think it is pretty common for people like Elon to look for employees who want to throw 100% of themselves into their careers. I've avoided those sorts of environments but have no issues with CEOs/Employees who enjoy those types of working environments. I prefer low pressure work @ 40hrs. per week. I make less money, but spend less on self-medication. :)
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I honestly want to see the big social media platforms fail, and keep failing until we as a global community pull our heads out of our collective elephant to the degree that we can handle. "A lie travels halfway around the world before the truth gets its shoes on" - the old saw has only been shown terribly true with the addition of the Internet. And it's not about a failure of critical thinking. The problem is larger than that. Modern propaganda isn't singularly about misinforming anymore. It's about flooding the zone, and exhausting your ability to reason with too much information. Kind of like tobacco companies used to produce damning evidence against them buried under virtual mountains of other discovery, so that no human beings could sift through it in any reasonable time. We are not ready for mass many to many communication.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Serious question, without trying to be too political. This isn't really about politics, but workplace quality. I'm just asking you, as a developer, would you put up with working in that atmosphere? By all appearances, from the little I've seen, I'd have been out the door before the ink was dry on Elon's buyout. Not because of who he is or what he believes, but because of how he runs things. My guess is his top talent has already fled.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Assuming I would have taken a job at Twitter to begin with (I wouldn't have), I too would be out the door in a hurry. Musk's theory of operation is the antithesis to my beliefs and management theory. Also, I wouldn't last long if I stayed as I don't play the sycophant role very well.
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Serious question, without trying to be too political. This isn't really about politics, but workplace quality. I'm just asking you, as a developer, would you put up with working in that atmosphere? By all appearances, from the little I've seen, I'd have been out the door before the ink was dry on Elon's buyout. Not because of who he is or what he believes, but because of how he runs things. My guess is his top talent has already fled.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
I would in a heart beat. This is why. You don't get to be the richest person in the world without doing things right. Musk is a workhorse. He worked over a 100 hrs a week to get Tesla off the ground. Everybody doubted him. If you look at the great entrepreneurs in History, they persevered. Edison failed 3000 times before he got the light bulb right. Working for people like this is the best education. I learned so much about business from working at Walmart - the #1 retailer, far more than any teacher who has only read in books and not "done" what they teach. There is so much to grow as a human being by persevering through the tough parts. you learn to handle emotions in a much better way. Those that can - do. Those that can't - complain and switch jobs.
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Serious question, without trying to be too political. This isn't really about politics, but workplace quality. I'm just asking you, as a developer, would you put up with working in that atmosphere? By all appearances, from the little I've seen, I'd have been out the door before the ink was dry on Elon's buyout. Not because of who he is or what he believes, but because of how he runs things. My guess is his top talent has already fled.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Serious question, without trying to be too political. This isn't really about politics, but workplace quality. I'm just asking you, as a developer, would you put up with working in that atmosphere? By all appearances, from the little I've seen, I'd have been out the door before the ink was dry on Elon's buyout. Not because of who he is or what he believes, but because of how he runs things. My guess is his top talent has already fled.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Yes! Can imagine having a boss that have thought and creates at your same level? Not bound by the normal corporate BS? Not every idea becomes a project and not every project pans out, but when your boss is up at night thinking of what to come up with next, instead of how to please everyone else. Howard Hughes was like that, and because he was unimpeded by the public corporate bounds, his companies were used to run very large important projects. Look up the Glomar Explorer. I would love to be part of projects like what Elon Musk and Howard Hughes have created.
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Serious question, without trying to be too political. This isn't really about politics, but workplace quality. I'm just asking you, as a developer, would you put up with working in that atmosphere? By all appearances, from the little I've seen, I'd have been out the door before the ink was dry on Elon's buyout. Not because of who he is or what he believes, but because of how he runs things. My guess is his top talent has already fled.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
A day in the life of a Twitter dev: If you chose to go to the office today... Arrive at 8 am Go to the gym for a workout Head to the meditation room to relax Take a shower and change into something comfortable Head to the cafeteria to get some breakfast Get some Starbucks and go to the roof to enjoy it on the patio Ponder why Twitter needs 5 times as many devs as any other company for the same work Now its about time for lunch... Elon is expecting devs to "work" at the office for 8 hours a day. How outrageous!
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A day in the life of a Twitter dev: If you chose to go to the office today... Arrive at 8 am Go to the gym for a workout Head to the meditation room to relax Take a shower and change into something comfortable Head to the cafeteria to get some breakfast Get some Starbucks and go to the roof to enjoy it on the patio Ponder why Twitter needs 5 times as many devs as any other company for the same work Now its about time for lunch... Elon is expecting devs to "work" at the office for 8 hours a day. How outrageous!
Yeah, that's not what I'm hearing. Twitter Managers Told Staff to Work 12-Hour Shifts, 7 Days a Week: CNBC[^]
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I would in a heart beat. This is why. You don't get to be the richest person in the world without doing things right. Musk is a workhorse. He worked over a 100 hrs a week to get Tesla off the ground. Everybody doubted him. If you look at the great entrepreneurs in History, they persevered. Edison failed 3000 times before he got the light bulb right. Working for people like this is the best education. I learned so much about business from working at Walmart - the #1 retailer, far more than any teacher who has only read in books and not "done" what they teach. There is so much to grow as a human being by persevering through the tough parts. you learn to handle emotions in a much better way. Those that can - do. Those that can't - complain and switch jobs.
Arguably he piggybacked off of someone else's work and took all the credit. I'm not saying he's not an engineer. But he was born 3 inches from homebase and bragging about his triple.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I don't know where you work, but coding dies when the product does everywhere I've been. I guarantee you Twitter has developers. Elon is busy abusing them as we speak, I think with his latest insane deadlines for his new pay-to-play video initiative from what I'm hearing.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
By "abusing", do you mean making them work more hours? Do you mean stopping the 'fact checks'?
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By "abusing", do you mean making them work more hours? Do you mean stopping the 'fact checks'?
I mean the "make this (crazy) deadline or you're all fired" toxic workplace environment. I honestly don't care about their "fact checks", one way or another because anyone stupid enough to do their "research" on facebook, twitter and youtube deserves what they get.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Yeah, that's not what I'm hearing. Twitter Managers Told Staff to Work 12-Hour Shifts, 7 Days a Week: CNBC[^]
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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That's just people projecting because they are in a panic that their woke paradise might be brought back to reality.
Are you saying businessinsider is fabricating the story? because they say they've got their hands on internal emails to that effect.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Are you saying businessinsider is fabricating the story? because they say they've got their hands on internal emails to that effect.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
I'm not really saying anything, I don't have any facts. But IMHO, I don't think that is coming from Elon. That's probably management freaking out and trying to be proactive. I once had a VP ask way so and so wasn't at their desk. This resulted in managers demanding that no one leave their desks for any reason. If you had to talk to someone 2 desks over, you had to call them. We had people written up for going to the bathroom. None of this was directed by the VP, they just asked an innocent question. So I would reserve judgement until things settle down, management begins to breath again, and Elon has more than a couple days on the job.
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I would in a heart beat. This is why. You don't get to be the richest person in the world without doing things right. Musk is a workhorse. He worked over a 100 hrs a week to get Tesla off the ground. Everybody doubted him. If you look at the great entrepreneurs in History, they persevered. Edison failed 3000 times before he got the light bulb right. Working for people like this is the best education. I learned so much about business from working at Walmart - the #1 retailer, far more than any teacher who has only read in books and not "done" what they teach. There is so much to grow as a human being by persevering through the tough parts. you learn to handle emotions in a much better way. Those that can - do. Those that can't - complain and switch jobs.
You are right, Musk is a workhorse and his success is astonishing. And if you choose to, you can work as hard as he does. But here is the problem... If you put in the time and somehow manage to deliver that widget for him by the deadline, you will get a pat on the back (not from Elon, your manager maybe) and a gift card. And then you get a new unrealistic deadline. Then, Musk's net worth balloons by a billion dollars. No matter how hard you work, how much you sacrifice, how much profit you create for the company, you will never be as successful as Elon Musk as long as you are working for Elon Musk. "I'm doing it for the opportunity to be promoted," you say. Granted, but we're never going to get there. Not in that meat-grinder kind of environment. The narcissists will get promoted over you. The sociopaths and psychopaths will end up as the directors and VP's. But not us. We're the horses doing all the work, kind of like George Orwell's Animal Farm. Been there, done that. It was a solid six months before I had returned to something vaguely resembling sanity. It took me that long to be able to look back and understand how much I had been caught up in that hunger games mentality. I am grateful to say that I currently work for a man that appreciates the work his employees do and we are rewarded accordingly. And we aren't working crazy hours with boneheaded deadlines. I think I'll stay here.
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I'm not really saying anything, I don't have any facts. But IMHO, I don't think that is coming from Elon. That's probably management freaking out and trying to be proactive. I once had a VP ask way so and so wasn't at their desk. This resulted in managers demanding that no one leave their desks for any reason. If you had to talk to someone 2 desks over, you had to call them. We had people written up for going to the bathroom. None of this was directed by the VP, they just asked an innocent question. So I would reserve judgement until things settle down, management begins to breath again, and Elon has more than a couple days on the job.
Well, given Musk's public statements on the issue about firing most of his employees and the like, I'm not inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. But even if I was, I won't put up with being treated that way in a workplace. By anyone. I know I'm not alone in that, which is why I suspect Twitter is bleeding top shelf talent right now. If I was a recruiter I'd have been outside their HQ weeks ago.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Serious question, without trying to be too political. This isn't really about politics, but workplace quality. I'm just asking you, as a developer, would you put up with working in that atmosphere? By all appearances, from the little I've seen, I'd have been out the door before the ink was dry on Elon's buyout. Not because of who he is or what he believes, but because of how he runs things. My guess is his top talent has already fled.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
No. I don't do twitter and it's unlikely they'd be making products that require embedded code. I don't write Windows/Linux code (except for scripts, mostly to support my embedded coding). I'm pretty sure I wouldn't fit in there very well anyways since I'm the kind of guy that would tell a woman that "Yes, that dress makes you look fat" when she asks.
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Serious question, without trying to be too political. This isn't really about politics, but workplace quality. I'm just asking you, as a developer, would you put up with working in that atmosphere? By all appearances, from the little I've seen, I'd have been out the door before the ink was dry on Elon's buyout. Not because of who he is or what he believes, but because of how he runs things. My guess is his top talent has already fled.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Serious question, without trying to be too political. This isn't really about politics, but workplace quality. I'm just asking you, as a developer, would you put up with working in that atmosphere? By all appearances, from the little I've seen, I'd have been out the door before the ink was dry on Elon's buyout. Not because of who he is or what he believes, but because of how he runs things. My guess is his top talent has already fled.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
i assume you talk about the programmers at twitter "My guess is his top talent has already fled" what exactly do you mean when you say top talent from the pool of twitter programmers? Jonathan Blow on Software Quality at the CSUA GM2 at the beginning of 2016: twitter had close to 4000 employees, space_x had 450 and they build and lunch rockets into space ps - i'm not saying that i'm better than the twitter programmers, but i'm definitely not in the space_x league