Manu Cornet was pleased to get a job at Twitter as it was “the only other big tech company that seemed to have some ethical values”. Then Elon Musk took over
ne Tuesday afternoon in early November, I was on a Google Meet with a dozen other engineers. Some of us had worked through the weekend trying to help out a colleague who’d been given an insanely tight deadline to transform Twitter’s verification process:had just announced that he wanted to make the coveted blue tick available to anyone willing to pay for a premium service.
We were told to “tune out the noise”, but that was hard when the TV blared out the latest rumours every morning At Google the senior leaders got very good at dodging questions. Twitter was smaller and younger, and you could ask the management direct questions at town-hall meetings. I liked the chief executive, Parag Agrawal, who had an engineering background: corporate doublespeak doesn’t come naturally to engineers. Twitter snacks weren’t quite as enticing as Google’s , but it felt like a more honest place.The Musk takeover rumours started in March.
My fellow engineers and I gossiped about what was happening, mostly on Slack . We had to be careful: the possibility of a legal suit between Musk and Twitter meant that these messages could end up in court, so we relied heavily on emojis. You can design your own emojis on Slack, and someone quickly came up with one for Musk. I produced one with the chief executive’s face that said “fiduciary”. That got used a lot, too.
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