Company allowances for employee wellness, productivity, home internet, training and development, Outschool, daycare, and quarterly team activities have all been discontinued, per an internal memo I’ve seen. “Allowances will be reevaluated over time and may be added back when the company’s financial situation improves,” it reads. More hardcore!
Per an internal memo to employees that I obtained, every Friday all Twitter employees are required to send an email update on their work with the subject line structure: “Weekly Update, name, dept, and date.”
Inside the email, they must include what project they are working on, “code samples” if relevant or summaries of work for non-technical work, and what they have been trying to accomplish.
“Looking forward to making Twitter the highest performing tech software company in the world,” the internal memo ends. Hardcore!
Apple’s Phil Schiller, who runs the App Store, has deactivated his verified Twitter account. If Schiller has soured on how Elon Musk is running Twitter, that is potentially very bad news for Musk.
Don’t believe me? Then listen to Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth:
“Failure to adhere to Apple’s and Google’s guidelines would be catastrophic, risking Twitter’s expulsion from their app stores and making it more difficult for billions of potential users to get Twitter’s services. This gives Apple and Google enormous power to shape the decisions Twitter makes.”
How many people took their new boss’s offer and quit their jobs at Twitter last night?
We don’t have a number to put on that, but Alex Heath has this email that was just sent from Elon Musk to Twitter’s software engineers.
Anyone who actually writes software, please report to the 10th floor at 2pm today.
Before doing so, please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past ~6 months, along with up to 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of code.
Thanks,
Elon
The strangest part of all this is that just 18 hours ago, Twitter told employees that all office buildings will be closed until the 21st. But maybe they could really use the help.
Musk gave Twitter staff a deadline to say if they are staying for his cultural reset of the company. Right on time, farewell emojis started pouring into Twitter’s Slack.
Like at SpaceX — another privately owned Musk company — some employees will get stock as compensation, which could be lucrative if the company ever goes public again. Here’s the memo Musk just sent to staff:
Even though Twitter is now a private company, we absolutely will continue to provide stock and options as part of our ongoing compensation plan!
The stock plan will be much like that of SpaceX, which has been very successful. As with SpaceX, exceptional amounts of stock will be awarded for exceptional performance.
