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Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

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#41
I feel like engineers behaved like a jerk in this case. Maybe Elon's tweet about 1000 RPC calls were wrong, but they could politely point it out, try to help to the company by joining internal discussions about what's going on.

But no, instead they started attacking the current owner of company publicly (good or bad, doesn't matter, he is now owner of company, if you don't like it just resign professionally).

Re: Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

#42
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Who thinks they can tell their boss "kiss my ass" and not get fired? > i said it before and i'll say it again > kiss my ass elon

(using his platform)

(wasn't he supposed to be for free speech?)

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#43

Looks like Elon tries to act like a chief architect of Twitter[1] even though he still seems to confuse that 1000 RPCs are serially sent[2] from the app[3]? Why don't we do a public technical design interview session for Elon to see if he is technically competent enough for architecting one of the most famous social network? :sigh: [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592177471654604800 [2] https://twitter.com/el…

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Re: Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

#44

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I'm not surprised she was fired with that attitude.

Who thinks they can tell their boss "kiss my ass" and not get fired? > i said it before and i'll say it again > kiss my ass elon

If you wanna be paid to be a doormat, there is demand for that clearly.

This is like his open door policy - go through it, for you will leave your job behind it.

Re: Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

#45
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He HAS to be doing it on purpose, no-one is this retarded, especially when he just paid 44 BILLION for it. It's like the Emperors new clothes, we're all trying to see some kind of genius that just isn't there.

I'm starting to believe he decided it made more sense to mark down the investment to 0 and use the losses against his income for the next few years instead to pay the fine for pulling out of the deal.

There was no "fine for pulling out of the deal".

Re: Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

#46

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Who thinks they can tell their boss "kiss my ass" and not get fired? > i said it before and i'll say it again > kiss my ass elon

I wonder if there’s a severance package for that. Employment suicide by cop.

Dangerous gamble for just a couple months of severance.

Would make me hesitant to hire that person knowing they have such bad judgement as to publicly badmouth the CEO of their company on Twitter. Even hiring managers who personally hate Elon have to understand that this developer could easily turn the same energy on their own company at some point in the future and make them look terrible.

Definitely a career limiting move, if not potentially career ending.

Unless you're in a financial FU position, and this is your grand FU moment on your way out the door, it seems like a bad move.

Re: Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

#47
post #14

I would love to hear from Twitter engineers who survived layoffs and aren't actively looking for other jobs right now. What is going on in your head? Are you okay with all the changes Musk is making? Did he fire the "right" people? Do you think you will have stable employment and a reasonable work environment for the next 1-3 years?

If they're getting good stock awards to stay, and if they think they can turn Twitter around, then there's a good chance they can make a lot of money. Now that Twitter is private the stock is going to be a lot less volatile. Work hard. Acquire users. Enter new markets. Valuation improves (once or twice a year). Cash out during a purchase offer. If I were Elon, I'd be drowning the remaining loyal employees with RSUs.

Do you do any real estate investment? I have this property in Brooklyn that I think you'd be really interested in

Re: Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

#48

Looks like Elon tries to act like a chief architect of Twitter[1] even though he still seems to confuse that 1000 RPCs are serially sent[2] from the app[3]? Why don't we do a public technical design interview session for Elon to see if he is technically competent enough for architecting one of the most famous social network? :sigh: [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592177471654604800 [2] https://twitter.com/el…

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Re: Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

#49
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Can anyone else not login to Twitter?

Elon turned off the 2fa microservice to reduce complexity: https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/15922599381095219...

I logged into Twitter with 2FA about an hour ago (hours after this tweet).

“Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Re: Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

#50

I find it annoying that the greatest source of information regarding the ongoing implosion of Twitter seems to be Twitter itself. I'm eager to watch it die but I'm still unwilling to load their horrendously slow and visually offensive web interface.

I find the ringing irony in your comment annoying.
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