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“Reportedly, Elon stack-ranked Twitter engineers by LoC and fired the bottom X%”

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Re: “Reportedly, Elon stack-ranked Twitter engineers by LoC and fired the bottom X%”

#13
Well that's stupid. Like firing people in factory by amount of manufactured goods. First who will go will be HR, management and engineers telling line operators how to do stuff. Like sure it will work for a while, until something breaks or you will want new product...

Re: “Reportedly, Elon stack-ranked Twitter engineers by LoC and fired the bottom X%”

#14
post #2

... which likely means he's gotten rid everyone who worked on particularly challenging things, like security, privacy, performance, & reliability. - @mcmillen

What’s their source for this? I can believe Elon being that stupid but still just seems like hearsay right now.

Re: “Reportedly, Elon stack-ranked Twitter engineers by LoC and fired the bottom X%”

#16
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The whole accessibility team has been fired, which would make sense... probably not huge LoC, but very crucial work nonetheless

Twitter had an accessibility team? Their website is a nightmare, who were they making it accessible for?

As a Voiceover user on IOS the app worked well enough. I haven't used it for a while though, ever since I discovered profootballtalk.com had an rss feed I had no need to use twitter to keep up on NFL news.

Re: “Reportedly, Elon stack-ranked Twitter engineers by LoC and fired the bottom X%”

#18

The most effective way to fire your best engineers. If this is true then Elon is truly not an engineer.

Who in the world would ever accuse Elon of being an engineer???

All of his sycophants tend to think he’s a genius engineer and all the ideas his company produced are his own.
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