Risk in return for what reward? There's no reason to believe there's any more upside to working at Twitter vs any other big tech company where you don't have a egonomaniac CEO making you do stupid hazing rituals. It's not like a startup where your equity can be worth hundreds of millions of dollars if there's a big IPO. Twitter is well past the 1000x growth stage.
Considering that a lot of the other big tech companies are also laying off and have hiring freezes and the market is saturated with 20000 recently unemployed other big tech SWEs also looking for work…I’d say the reward you get is not having to deal with that rat race.
Let’s face it as hazing rituals go, this is pretty mild.
