Musk isn’t showing his vision or giving employees a reason to buy into it. Abysmal attention seeking tactics are overriding his ability to lead. Hard to get people to buy in when you publicly call out employees or alienate the exact people you need on your side.Elon walked into a viper den. He may be the the owner, but he has been considered an enemy of a particular political faction that held power over the platform. The platform just so happened to be one of the primary vehicles to disseminate information in accordance to that classes views. Taking it over is a direct assault to them.
Firing hostile employees is a necessity to wrest control the company. Otherwise the indignant labor would obstruct his vision. The cases of employees expressing open animosity on the very platform he now controls is an example of that.
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Twitter is not going to shutdown by losing engineers, but losing the people with the most experience with the systems 100% sets back timelines and leads to higher investment in time and money.
This thing that Twitter “is not that complicated” is neither here nor there. You’re talking about a huge codebase with many features and it often takes developers months to really understand systems and have the ability to make updates of value. If you have a really green team working on a legacy codebase, it typically leads to anarchy and higher tech debt until team gets battle hardened
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