Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
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Twitter employees resigned en masse on Thursday in response to an earlier ultimatum from Musk.
The company’s ranks have been hollowed out, with senior staff and some entire departments gone.
Musk is now calling for “anyone who actually writes software” at the company to meet him on Friday.
Elon Musk is looking for help from any employees left at Twitter who may be able to do technical work and even asked employees to fly to San Francisco to meet with him.
In a set of emails sent around midnight PT, Musk asked to meet with “anyone who actually writes software” on Friday afternoon. He asked people to line up on the 10th floor of Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters at 2 pm PT after sending to him by email a “bullet point summary” of their code for the past six months, along with “up to 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of code.”
The email came after a mass resignation on Thursday saw hundreds of Twitter employees resign in response to an ultimatum Musk offered earlier in the week. He told workers to click a link to accept working for his “extremely hardcore” version of “Twitter 2.0” or resign. More than half of the company remaining since a mass layoff earlier this month, or over 2,000 employees, took the latter option of resigning.
In a follow up email sent overnight, Musk directed anyone planning to work from home to email him the same code information and screenshots. “I will try to speak with you via video,” he said. Still, he demanded that anyone who is able to come into the office to meet with him.
In a third email, Musk said he would “appreciate” if employees could “fly to SF to be present in person.”
Below are complete copies of Musk’s emails to Twitter staff:
Anyone who actually writes software, please report to the 10th floor at 2 pm today.
Before doing so, please email a bullet point summary of what your code commands have achieved in the past ~6 months, along with up to 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of code.
Thanks,
Elon
If you’re working remotely, please email the request below nonetheless and I will try to speak you via video. Only those who cannot physically get to Twitter HQ or have a family emergency are excused.
These will be short, technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack.
Thanks,
Elon
If possible, I would appreciate it if you could fly to SF to be present in person. I will be at Twitter HQ until midnight and then back again tomorrow morning.