Forum Overview :: Motherfucking News :: Look, I am not anti-remote work. It's just harder to manage remote people

[quote name="blackwater"]I know this because... I've done it, and it's hard. [quote name="Horus Truthteller"]But the way Musk is doing it is really, really, really stupid. Which it is because he is really, really, really stupid. The first filter for developers was stupid in terms of lines of code. Now he's filtering those that wrote a lot of code that can't or won't make it to an office. There isn't anything intelligent going on here. It's a stupid "power" thing coupled with an inability to have any idea what he's doing.[/quote] You have the wrong impression about what Musk is trying to do. You're assuming he's trying to keep a lot of the old crew. That is not the case. He'd replace them all if he could (he can't). Remember his original plan was to cut 75%. If there is more attrition as a result of removing WFH perks, he considers that a GOOD thing. Lines of code is a shitty metric but it's an objective one that can't be argued. If Musk gets sued for discrimination or whatever he can say, "not my fault. I just followed the metric and cut the X% bottom people" [quote name="Horus Truthteller"]Remote work isn't going anywhere.[/quote] Sure. It is objectively easy to find remote work these days. The Twitter people will be fine, just fine. I even know some of them. They are all very wealthy by median American standards. Their <a href="https://www.levels.fyi/companies/twitter/salaries/software-engineer">ENTRY LEVEL COMP</a> is $163,000 / year. For senior people it can go up to around $500,000 / year. And since the value of the stock held up over the last year (thanks Elon!) those stock comp numbers are still valid. These are the people that NYT has their panties in a twist about. Ridiculous. This is almost hedge fund (hedgie) levels of money.[/quote]