Are there any objective employee sentiment surveys about what they think? Even after all the bad press, I can picture that many are still cautiously optimistic (or just interested to be along for the ride), especially if they previously weren't happy with Twitter's direction. There is a lot of internal rot in tech and a lot of people putting up with it because of their pay. I've worked in jobs where a lot of people would have been happy to see someone come in and shake things up, even if it was disruptive and risky.

I dunno, an ambitious young eng with no other responsibilities could stay just to see how much they're about to run basically by themselves. what other ways could you get that kind of experience? if the site goes down well ah well that was a difficult task. if they manage to keep the site going though, juggling keeping the shitton of microservices up with a megalomaniac at the helm trying to kill them off. that experience is probably worth a few hundred k in TC at whatever place lets them tell the story and gives them an offer

They could leave, but I think unionizing is a better solution if they can pull it off, and it would set a better precedent for programmers affected by similar things in other companies.

By moat accounts it was a toxic environment before the takeover, now its merely chaotic.