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I wonder how soon Twitter will have to crank the compensation up because no one wants to work there.

Unlikely. Elon's MO for all of his companies is to find the "true believer" types and work them to death for pennies. It's much harder to do in software when one can simply walk across the street and get a better job, but I'm sure there are still enough of them to keep Twitter running because they worship whatever he is spouting.

Sure that works for SpaceX and Tesla, but for Twitter? Maybe I'm out of touch with the average software engineer but there's a lot of FAANG and FAANG-adjacent employers that have more compelling products to work on.

> It's much harder to do in software when one can simply walk across the street and get a better job

That may have been the case six months ago, but those “better jobs” are drying up and there is now I think around 20k recently released FAANG level SWEs walking around without gigs. Once the severance payout is gone and the COBRA starts demanding $1500/mo…there will be all sorts of SWEs willing to stretch their anti-Elon morality for a decent paycheck again.

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