Assuming you’re at liberty to comment, do you wish more companies adapted Elon’s “show your work from the last 2 weeks or get fired” approach to managing engineers?
I wouldn’t love the sort of culture this creates with regards to increasing perception of career risk from team constantly and making it almost impossible to construct longer-term plans or vision, as a general statement, but have some non-zero level of regard for the notion of “Sometimes one needs to radically change cultures in a hurry and the transition period for them may not resemble the new steady state.”
Either way, I think that if pulled off correctly the Twitter transition will be one of the most important experiments done in the history of scaled management. I perceive ‘smart money’ (both literally and metaphorically from the management class) as assigning very low likelihood to success here. I think some smart money has not updated sufficiently on the track record of people confidently predicting Elon Musk will fail.
I think I am slightly better calibrated than smart money in that regard, and find myself in agreement with smart money anyway.
Assuming you’re at liberty to comment, do you wish more companies adapted Elon’s “show your work from the last 2 weeks or get fired” approach to managing engineers?
I wouldn’t love the sort of culture this creates with regards to increasing perception of career risk from team constantly and making it almost impossible to construct longer-term plans or vision, as a general statement, but have some non-zero level of regard for the notion of “Sometimes one needs to radically change cultures in a hurry and the transition period for them may not resemble the new steady state.”
Either way, I think that if pulled off correctly the Twitter transition will be one of the most important experiments done in the history of scaled management. I perceive ‘smart money’ (both literally and metaphorically from the management class) as assigning very low likelihood to success here. I think some smart money has not updated sufficiently on the track record of people confidently predicting Elon Musk will fail.
I think I am slightly better calibrated than smart money in that regard, and find myself in agreement with smart money anyway.