'Anyone who actually writes software' report to 10th floor

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: November 18, 2022 (Sent Friday morning Pacific time)
To:: Twitter employees (software engineers)

Partial text. Only these passages were published; [...] marks a gap.

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

About this email

The morning after the ultimatum deadline triggered mass resignations, Musk summons anyone who writes software to the 10th floor of Twitter HQ at 2pm and asks for a bullet-point summary of six months of code commits plus up to 10 screenshots of code.

Notes

Text as given in the Ars Technica feed excerpt ('email a bullet point summary of what your code commands'); Fortune and others print it as 'please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the last ~6 months'. Ars says Business Insider published the emails in full, but Business Insider, The Verge and Ars Technica were blocked for retrieval in this session. Fortune reports this was sent as two emails about 20 minutes apart.

Where it came from

Leaked to press; attribution widely reported.

Twitter/X, company-wide memo. Tags: engineering, code-review, in-person, layoffs-aftermath

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