Remote engineers: short technical interviews by video

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: November 18, 2022 (Minutes after the 10th-floor summons)
To:: Twitter employees (software engineers working remotely)

Excerpt. Only this much of the email has been made public.

Only those who cannot get to Twitter HQ or have a family emergency are excused [...] These will be short, technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack

About this email

Musk tells engineers working remotely to email their code summaries anyway so he can try to speak with them by video, excusing only those who cannot get to HQ or have a family emergency, and describes the sessions as short technical interviews.

Notes

Fragments from Reuters ('These will be short...') and CNBC ('Only those who cannot get to Twitter HQ...'); their order within the email is not confirmed, and The Daily Beast renders the excusal line as 'only those who cannot physically get to Twitter HQ are excused'. Sources disagree on whether this was a separate email or part of the next one.

Where it came from

Leaked to press; attribution widely reported.

Twitter/X, company-wide memo. Tags: engineering, remote-work, code-review

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