You're totally right it has not fallen over because of the great eng work before. The reality is that they have in some sense of the word, automated their jobs away. And yes, things are breaking, but not enough to make a serious business impact. He's basically running the private equity playbook of just squeezing out as much profit as possible until the company is dry.I feel like everyone who actually works on anything SWE at scale understands that the main reason Twitter hasn't completely fallen over is because the former engineering team built one of the most resilient on-prems in the history of the world. Lots of stuff on it has been breaking btw. Now they have just decided to not ship new stuff.
The man has driven off most of his advertisers and won't pay his rent. Not the negative case most people make it out to be. Yeah you right, it's worse if you actually know what's going on.
As far as reddit metrics go, I assume theyre bad because every interview gets more unhinged.
It's really not worse if you know what's going on. I'm sure working there is terrible, but very few people can look at the finances now that it's private, but the well-connected executives are probably the most likely to learn that info. They're copying his playbook for a reason, and it's not because it's a financial disaster.
The reality with Reddit is the company is kind of screwed either way. Meta and Alphabet just destroy every other company in terms of ads performance. The bad relationship with advertisers for Twitter is not recent, they've been struggling pretty much forever.