SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Elon Musk’s MasterClass on How To Ruin a Company

Lesson Number One: Threaten your employees

Charles Bastille
Ruminato
Published in
6 min readNov 16, 2022

If you’re a recruiter, take note of the dates Twitter software engineers mark as their employment dates. If it includes any period after Elon Musk purchased the company, skip the whiteboard test. Nobody worth a dime can possibly still be working for this guy.

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Charles Bastille
Ruminato

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