[hintymad]

Elon's internal memos read as if Twitter engineers were below his standards. I don't doubt that there are some truths in it, but there are also many great engineers who want to build great stuff, who make progress despite the infighting culture of Twitter, and who have built pretty scalable and autonomous systems in the past years. They may feel dignified by Elon's policies and memos, for good or for bad, and then chose to leave - a net loss for Twitter.

And what's so hardcore about Payroll system? Shouldn't we demand quality instead and I'm not sure if working 80 hours a week would lead to better quality of the system.

[cafard]

What most of us want out of a payroll system is accuracy. I would be deeply alarmed if I found out the payroll department at my employer was putting in 80 hour weeks to get the checks out.