Ask HN: How will it impact after Elon's 'hardcore'

I’m not seeing what Musk sees. I don’t understand how top tier engineering talent turns Twitter into something worth buying for $44,000,000,000.

It seems like a total farce. Accordingly, it seems like he’s being a complete asshole to thousands of people while making a spectacle of himself.

It means vanishingly little but this was what made me leave Twitter. His ineptitude around software engineering has made me wonder… If I knew anything about space or cars, would I similarly think he’s totally full of it?

The situation is grim. I don’t think his strategy will influence many other leaders, either.

It appears to me that Musk believes (or needs to believe) that Twitter has only failed due to incompetence. I don’t think it’s that simple though, and I don’t see any evidence that he has the competence to turn it around yet.

Will Twitter employees be earning hardcore TC? Or will they be expected to work hardcore hours with normal comp?

It won't work with Twitter since there's no real goal or definition of success. Putting in long hours and working harder can only help to accomplish something faster, but nobody's defined what they want to get done except for some features around verification and subscriptions.

It's not even clear that the developers were falling short in any real way. The service has been working fine for years, invisibly rolling out features.

996 is not unheard of in Silicon Valley, but in startups, where you have a remote promise of making big bucks.

Old, failing companies, with a crippling debt and leadership without any clue? Even if Twitter were to succeed, financials won’t work for people.

I think maybe we should stop talking about Elon.

I'm not sure on what planet it's a successful strategy to buy a tech company as the richest man in the world, fire half the staff, then claim that the company is in trouble and the remaining staff need to work "hardcore" to help keep the ship afloat. I'm fairly sure he'll need more than Starlink and SpaceX to reach that planet though.

Even in the current market there are surely going to be more attractive options for most or all of the good technical staff at Twitter than taking Musk's new deal. After recent events I doubt there will be much loyalty keeping anyone there either. A mass exodus seems inevitable.

I wonder if Twitter will even exist as a business in anything like its current form a year from now. Maybe Musk has a bet with Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng to see if he can beat their record for causing billions in economic damage in the shortest time possible.

I doubt it will spread in the USA because of this, because it will fail with his companies unlike Alibaba and Huawei.

I suspect it's worse for companies to do 996 and turn their employees one-dimensional, but Twitter will fail mainly because the CEO is mindlessly pulling levers, laying off staff, and throwing away its main revenue source, rather than just because he is making it hell to work there.

The best way to get soldiers to do push-ups is to do push-ups with them, even if he didn't talk about his new employees the way he did he seems too busy to get stuck in anyway.

I wish twitter was a French company… it would be hilarious to watch Elon clash with our labour’s laws! At my company a new manager (from the US) was severely scolded for sending an e-mail after working hours (it is prohibited to avoid being pressured working late)! Another time my team was asked with very short notice (around noon) if we could stay late to finish some critical work (compensated)… some people left earlier than usual in protest!

All of this reminds me of the software Death March book

https://www.amazon.com/Death-March-2nd-Edward-Yourdon/dp/013...

Where is the financial payoff? Is there a real possibility of a life changing exit? You need to actually believe in leadership's vision. Is the effort worth it? Do they even have a workable plan or are they just doing random things?

Maybe some of you don't actually know how bad will it be if 996 spreads, the 996 things don't only ruin your life and break the WLB but the most worse thing is it's the start of the vicious circle. For the developer self, you have to push your self working more hours because the other co-worker are working more hours For the company, the company will prefer who worked more hours because most of the management just simply thinks more hours represent more output For this industry, well because a lot of developers work more hours this means normally a task you could do it in two days back in WLB instead it will be done in one day now, and this will eventually become the company needs 100 developers back days, now they only need 50 developers. and this will become the start of involution

Manufacture can build more with more hours. But tell me, how are "more hours" for less people building a better Twitter? What wonderful features will they build?

A social media is not a car or a rocket. People went to Twitter for its freedom. And now that freedom is migrating in flocks to Mastodon.

So no, US won't be China 2.0 They have already been.

Shareholders of Tesla demand tesla ceo to reduce pay and work in tesla office just like what he proposed for twitter or go find some other job. Elon tastes his own medicine