[ramesh31]

>I absolutely cannot understand why any engineer would chose to stay at Twitter with the way things are.

I get it. For the same reason that Geohot gets it.

There's a certain type of personality that doesn't care about life. They don't care about family. They don't care about wealth and material possessions. They don't care about "work life balance". They care about clout. They care about being "the best of the best". They want to be part of an elite team working on the hardest problems in the world, and nothing else matters. And Elon (through SpaceX, Tesla, and now Twitter) feeds that need greater than anything else available.

[vsareto]

Musk is basically trying to be an Old Republic Sith Lord and filtering for apprentices.

All he has to do is throw down a gauntlet and it'll attract people who like running gauntlets. This particular gauntlet is software engineering. Make a thing seem really hard and prestigious (even if it's artificially hard) and you'll attract the hyper-competitive people.

[subroutine]

Also all the people who stood between you and your boss's job are now gone. If I survived the initial round of firings and then the code review, I'd probably stick around to see what happens - maybe just to watch the place burn. I wouldn't substantially change my work behavior, and get my resume up to date. But it might be interesting to stay for a while.

[api]

That works for Tesla and definitely for SpaceX. I don’t think that works for Twitter. It’s Twitter.

[kodyo]

Nobody has ever had any idea how to make Twitter "work."