Is this a joke to him to play with people's mental health? How can people fly or commute or travel to SF on short notice. People have families, kids, personal commitment and lives out of the show he is running.
Even if someone is the most brilliant engineer with the best solution to requirements it does not necessarily means they have 10k lines of code solving hard leetcode to please him.
I feel for everyone living through these hard times.
Having worked around some folks similar to Elon, they literally do not think family etc matters and since for them there is a small army taking care of everything like child care and so on, they assume it is similar for other people. This is another reason, young people are preferred in hiring, no other commitments means they do not have to plan around anything like spouse or kids or old parents and so on.
Even if someone is the most brilliant engineer with the best solution to requirements it does not necessarily means they have 10k lines of code solving hard leetcode to please him.
I feel for everyone living through these hard times.