Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Elon Musk just sent an email to all staff outlining “Twitter 2.0”, writing it will “need to be extremely hardcore”.
Taking to social media, Gergely Orosz, revealed the Gist.
Gergely Orosz wrote: “Elon Musk just sent an email to all staff outlining “Twitter 2.0″, writing it will”need to be extremely hardcore”. Long hours, high intensity.
People need to click “yes” to confirm being part of this by 5pm ET tomorrow, else they get 3 months severance. More details:
“The email came at midnight PST, similar to previous major changes announced at Twitter.
It writes how “only exceptional performance will constitute a passive grade” and how Twitter will be engineering driven, with coders playing an important part in it.
“My take is that given everything that has been going on with Twitter, this is a positive step.
“It does not sugarcoat what kind of culture to expect: people already had a glimpse of it anyway.
It also offers an easy way out to anyone on the fence, with decent severance pacakge.
“Also note that, like with eveything Elon does, all of it seems to assume California ‘at will employment’ applies globally. When Twitter has employees in other countries with strict labor laws.
“I assume HR will scramble to “translate” this email to account for local regulation.
“Software engineers still at Twitter I am talking with are happy/relieved on this email. Many wanted to leave and were interviewing so this makes it easy for them a I leave.
For those on visas tied to employment, this won’t make it easier though.
Twitter 2.0 starts tomorrow? An interesting point about making the long working hours and “only exceptional performance will constitute as passing grade” a policy in countries with decent employee protection like within EU. I expect Twitter could simply stop employing people in such countries/close offices.
“Just a philosophical one:
The wording of what to expect describes a startup that is up against the world. Eg what you’d describe to early employees getting lots of equity.
In reality, you’d work for the world’s richest man, w the most equity. Unclear what equity employees get.
“The way Elon’s Twitter operates sounds bonkers.
An eng leader who wrote how rehired devs are “weak, lazy and unmotivated” apologized on an all hands by saying he was tired when writing the message b/c he works 12-hour days.
Sounds like that will be the norm, going forward.”
Twitter CEO Elon Musk gave staff an ultimatum this morning: decide whether they want to be part of the new “hardcore” Twitter by 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, or be let go with three months severance pay.
Musk’s email went out this morning, titled “A Fork in the Road,” asking those who wanted to stay to click on a link. Anyone who didn’t by the deadline would be gone, according to copies of the email sent to Forbes by three sources familiar with the matter.
He outlined that to build “Twitter 2.0,” the company would need to be “extremely hardcore,” working long hours and at high intensity. “Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”
Twitter hadn’t responded to a request for comment at the time of publication. The Washington Post was first to report on the email.
The new chief said the new Twitter will be more engineering focused and those who write “great code” will hold the most sway. “If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter, please click yes on the link below… Whatever decision you make, thank you for your efforts to make Twitter successful,” Musk added.
The email landed following mass layoffs of Twitter’s over 7,000 staff, as well as many resignations, most recently including the company’s privacy, security and trust leadership. One engineer was also fired by Musk over Twitter, though the CEO later deleted his tweet telling the staffer they were gone. The former employee later told Forbes Musk and his Twitter team were “a bunch of cowards.”
Yesterday also saw reports that internal Slack messages and staff Twitter accounts were being monitored. At least 20 of those who made critical comments about the company and its new leader were let go, including engineer Nick Morgan, who wrote on Twitter that “I can only assume this was for not showing 100% loyalty in Slack. I’ve heard the same thing has happened to many others now.”
Elon Musk just sent an email to all staff outlining “Twitter 2.0″, writing it will”need to be extremely hardcore”. Long hours, high intensity.
People need to click “yes” to confirm being part of this by 5pm ET tomorrow, else they get 3 months severance. More details:
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