Is it Legal? Elon Musk ultimatum. Do ‘extremely hardcore’ work or get out

Yeah, I caught the misspelling of ‘Perl’ as well, but chalked it up to a typo. I woud think a programming site would know the name of the language.

What if it was a preliminary screening to get rid of the obvious hangers-on? What if he had inside knowledge that some of the developers sucked really bad, but he needed an ‘impartial’ process to get rid of them without a lawsuit? Or what if there are a million details we aren’t privy to that make this process less than crazy?

Was it hundreds of people? You say that confidently. I saw a group of maybe 30 people in that meeting. Do you have a cite for ‘hundreds’?

Again, the amount of ‘this is crazy’ talk coming from people who A) don’t know anything about software, and B) don’t know much of anything about what actually went on, seems like the opposite of fighting ignorance.

As I said, the session could have been a shit-show, or it could have been a smart filtering opportunity plus an opportunity for Musk to get together with core coders and take their measure. We really don’t know. I provided some rationale for why this all might have made sense and been a reasonable plan under the circumstances. I also said that it’s possible that it’s all hot garbage and Musk is flailing.

But when the guy doing it has a track record like Musk’s, my default is that he has a reason for doing it. That doesn’t extend to his tweeting - Musk looks to me like a typical genius-on-the-spectrum who may be great with technical issues but terrible with people. A poor choice to run a social network. But maybe i’m wrong.

What I could see happening, BTW, is that ‘crazy’ Musk cleans house, pisses people off by doing all the hard things that need doing at Twitter to right the ship, then announcing that he’s pulling back to work on SpaceX and Tesla and installing an acceptable head like Jack Dorsey, who will then reassure everyone including advertisers that old Twitter is back, baby. Musk isn’t sticking around as CEO forever. He’s got too much else going on.