Not A Fan Of Musk? Tech Companies Court Ex-Twitter Employees

Disturbed by the authoritative manner in which Elon Musk manages his company? Come closer to us! This is the pitch that is being used by technology companies that are desperate for talent in order to entice the thousands of former Twitter Inc. employees that were let go by the social media company after it was acquired by a new owner.

Following Elon Musk’s turbulent takeover of the social media network, Twitter has abruptly terminated key executives and enacted severe job cuts while providing little to no prior warning. There have been approximately 3,700 individuals let go, which is close to half of the total. According to reports, hundreds more people have left their jobs as a direct result of his far-reaching changes. The departure of another senior management took place on Monday, and this time it was the head of operations in France.

Spying opportunity, some organizations are now attempting to pick up experienced engineering talent by appealing to their disgust for the practices used by the person who is currently the richest in the world. According to reports, Elon Musk sacked a bunch of employees at the software company Hubspot (HUBS.N) because they had criticized him on the company’s internal Slack channels. In response, the chief people officer at Hubspot, Katie Burke, lashed out at Musk. This information was unable to be independently confirmed.

In a post that she made on Linkedin, she stated that “being criticized is part of your job as a leader.” “Strong leaders understand that engaging in healthy debate and respectful disagreement is an essential element of the learning process. HubSpot is now looking to fill a variety of open positions, and if you’re interested in working somewhere that will allow you to disagree with others (of course, in a civil and transparent manner), then you should apply.”

By the time Monday evening rolled around, the post that Burke had made on Linkedin had received more than 35,000 positive replies. A number of other businesses are adopting a strategy that is analogous to that of Hubspot.

An open letter was written by Amanda Richardson, CEO of recruitment software business CoderPad, and distributed to Twitter users who have left the platform.

Richardson called Musk’s takeover of the company a “s*** show” and said it has been “terribly unpleasant, upsetting, and demotivating.” He cited Musk’s original restriction on remote-working as an example.

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“We at CoderPad are of the opinion that your skills speak for themselves. It doesn’t matter where you sit. Not if you sleep at work. Not being required to labor nonstop for 18 hours, seven days a week.”

Other large American technology companies, such as Meta (META.O) and Amazon (AMZN.O), have also been forced to let go of thousands of employees in recent weeks as a direct result of the unstable economic climate.

However, the widespread criticism that Musk has received brings to light the enormous demand that exists in certain sectors of the industry for highly qualified digital professionals.

The market for technical talent has become “hyper-competitive,” according to a report that was recently published by the market research company Gartner. The survey found that high attrition rates and a wave of digitization efforts across business and government have created this market.

There have been reports of widespread layoffs and public resignations at Twitter, which has led to concerns that the company is shedding key employees and that the “town square” of social media could have technological difficulties.

In a similar post on Linkedin, Michael Weening, the Chief Executive Officer of the United States-based cloud and software company Calix (CALX.N), referred to recent events at Twitter as “disturbing,” and he assured prospective employees that they would be a part of a company culture that “starts with our team members.”

According to Weening, who spoke in a recent interview about the matter, “From our standpoint, this is a tremendous chance,” as “those who would not speak to us before are disillusioned and looking.” “People are fed up with the toxic culture and are demanding ‘No more.’”

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