The Twitter Boulder Office

&gt; So there sat this new building. Just this huge, cavernous waste of money, a monument to a corporate unwillingness to change course in the light of new information.<p>Kind of somes up twitter as a whole. Something someone once thought was a good idea, plowed through with VC funding, failed as a business and still treading along till it was finally acquired and taken out back.

For every Boulder office like this there are a dozen more you will never see or know about. All built pre-pandemic, all built as Googly as possible to attract young talent, and all completely empty for the last three years.<p>How do I know? I sit in one a few times a week in a hybrid role. The office can seat 200 and there are maybe 20 that come in. It&#x27;s a colossal waste of space and energy. Nothing has worked to date to attract the WFH people that will never return. But hey, there&#x27;s free beer next Thursday after work.<p>I&#x27;d kill for an office with a door. Instead, I look over a sea of empty open office space with bean bags and foosball tables everywhere. I feel bad for whomever has to disassemble this Airstream trailer and get it back down the freight elevator.

I love reading anecdotes like this.<p>I&#x27;m split. On one hand, the human factor of being unmotivated to work from a basement or an unbranded office seems understandable. Yet it seems also so pretentious, and seems to justify the impression of a culture of IT workers who thought they&#x27;re owed the world simply for the privilege to be paid to sit down and type some text on a computer as a job.<p>As for the new office being built and never used, speaks of absent leadership.<p>It paints the picture of a company that grew so fast, it simply became tumor-like. Unstructured, random, aimless. And frankly the Elon mutation didn&#x27;t help with that, it just made the tumor malignant.