> Reports that he gave a team until Nov 7th to roll out a paid subscription
> None of these things are particularly unreasonable
Six business days to come up with a system to process $6m per month of income.
Nothing unreasonable indeed...
> None of these things are particularly unreasonable
Six business days to come up with a system to process $6m per month of income.
Nothing unreasonable indeed...
Twitter (and really, BigCo in general) engineers are accustomed to their foosball tables, catered meals, wine bars, beer taps, rooftop gaming session, and endless meetings and code reviews.
It's possible that Musk is trying to set the reasonable expectation that a total comp package worth $400k should be exchanged for actual productivity, rather than playtime and busywork.
Which single developer can rollout payments globally in 6 days? How much time do they set aside to ensuring regulatory compliance with dozens of jurisdictions that have occasionally conflicting rules?
I too thought I could rewrite twitter and instagram in 10 days with a few JS and PHP framework when I was fresh out of uni
Tell me you've never been hired at Twitter without telling me you've never been hired at Twitter, lol. Every company has some dead weight, sure, but what you describe isn't remotely applicable to most people.