After buying Twitter, Elon Musk has been making sweeping changes to it. This morning, he also tweeted a photo of himself with engineers at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters at about 1:30 a.m. He said he had just finished reviewing code with Twitter engineers. He was about to leave the company.
Meanwhile, a Redbook user with an IP address at Twitter’s headquarters in the U.S. posted, “One of the most memorable weekends since I started at Twitter, meeting and working late into the night with my idol Elon. Elon tells the story of how he made his first money writing programs at the age of 12 and discusses Twitterfeed’s System design.”
In the article, he also praised Elon Musk’s coding skills and logical thinking, saying that Elon Musk proposed an optimization for a piece of code he wrote to handle the cache of a distributed system, which resulted in fewer network requests, and even patted him on the shoulder, saying that Twitter is still short of engineers like him.
Just a few hours later, however, he updated his dynamic again, saying he had been fired. “Due to not passing Elon’s Code review evaluation, there is currently no more access to the company’s systems…”
Elon Musk faced rapid changes in various situations in the three weeks before the acquisition of Twitter. The chaos has also been exacerbated by a massive exodus, with the company’s workforce having been cut by more than half during this period due to layoffs and other departures, and could reach around 3,700 according to Reuters.
According to Insider, some departments at Twitter no longer have employees. The New York Times and Fortune magazine also reported that another 1,200 employees resigned after Elon Musk issued an ultimatum.
