“Reportedly, Elon stack-ranked Twitter engineers by LoC and fired the bottom X%”
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LoC here meaning lines of code?
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#12The most effective way to fire your best engineers.
If this is true then Elon is truly not an engineer.
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#13Well 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...
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#14... 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.
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#15LoC here meaning lines of code?
Yes
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#16Earlier 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.
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#17The 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???
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#19I think most of us knows this is not true. Zero evidence and we known he didn't bring Tesla engineers to count lines.
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#20Think this was just one factor...
That it is any factor at all is ridiculous.