Elon Musk Convenes Emergency Code Review With Remaining Twitter Engineers
Elon Musk shares photos of a late-night code review with Twitter engineers after hundreds of employees resign. He asks the remaining staff to prove their coding achievements from the past six months.
Elon Musk shares photos of himself alongside engineers as they leave a late-night code review at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters. The impromptu meeting comes just days after hundreds of employees resign in response to the billionaire's strict ultimatum.
Musk issues an urgent email requiring all software engineers to report to the office in person and fly to San Francisco if necessary. He asks these remaining staff members to provide a bullet-point list of their coding achievements from the previous six months, along with up to 10 screenshots of their most important lines of code.
The Twitter owner states that these brief face-to-face meetings help him understand the Twitter tech stack. This intense technical scrutiny highlights Musk's hands-on approach to managing the platform's engineering team amid a period of massive organizational turnover.