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Re: If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now

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Post by ModernMech »

ncallaway wrote: post #338
erulabs wrote: post #270

I think people miss the point with the "tell me what code you've written in the last 6 months" task. The idea is hopefully not to qualitatively quantify anyones work - the idea is to find folks who have nothing whatsoever to show, and yet have titles like "staff software engineer". Anyone who has worked at a large enough company knows there is a solid 10-15% of folks doing nothing. The new leadership probably asked t…

> the idea is to find folks who have nothing whatsoever to show, and yet have titles like "staff software engineer". Shouldn't that have been the idea *before* they laid off half the employees? How fucking idiotic of a leader do you have to be to lay off half the company and *then* try and figure out who is producing literally nothing of value?

Remember how he became leader: he bought the company while waiving due diligence, only to later cry that he hadn't done due diligence after the deal was signed. "Move fast and break things" taken to its logical conclusion.

Re: If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now

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Post by qwytw »

Teandw wrote: post #410
qwytw wrote: post #349

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> those who cannot physically get to Twitter HQ are excused Probably means that if there are no actual flights from where you're to SF and that you couldn't get there in time no matter how much you wanted. Not exactly the same thing...

There is literally no reason to think he means that. That seems more like a deep personal hatred of someone and just trying to find the worst in everything they say or do.

That's how the majority of people would interpret:

"only those who cannot physically get to Twitter HQ are excused"

the key word is "physically".

> That seems more like a deep personal hatred No need to make strange assumptions. I have no feelings one way or the other. Yet I'm pretty sure that most reasonable people would interpret what Musk said the same way I did.

Re: If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now

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Post by qwytw »

khazhoux wrote: post #488
qwytw wrote: post #295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the new boss has enough time to throughly review the contributions of every employee in the company? To be fair is the number of engineers left in Twitter falls to double digits this just might become possible...

I have to assume he’ll delegate to people he trusts.

I would fine it hard to make this assumption based on how he's behaving.

Also does he really have that many at Twitter people whom he trusts? And are there many who trust him?

Re: If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now

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Post by jeffskiling »

lkrubner wrote: post #240

10 years ago I was at a place where a new CEO came in and fired 80% of the tech team. It was a hard scramble for the surviving engineers, including me, and we had some episodes of being down, but we pulled through it and the site survived. I think a balanced view of Twitter right now is that Elon Musk has made some mistakes, but in the end, Twitter will be fine, and in 6 months it might be more profitable than ever b…

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Re: If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now

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Post by toofy »

user3939382 wrote: post #473
guelo wrote: post #446

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> influence of these media stories The influences are from Elon's actions and tweets as well as leaks from insiders. Media conspiracy theories are not relevant here.

It’s not a “conspiracy theory” why do you think Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post? Because he loves journalism?

> Because he loves journalism?

i mean. yes.

while im sure there is an investment piece in their as well, do you think its unreasonable to say journalism is immensely important to a healthy society?

Re: If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now

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Post by jjav »

Balgair wrote: post #340

Now he's saying that he wants people to fly in to present their code to him by midnight. On the Friday before Thanksgiving. Into one of United's big hubs. With 14 hours notice. And a lot of cold fronts over the eastern seaboard. Likely more like 10 hours with travel times and the line of potential people that are presenting. I'm honestly gobsmacked. Look, if you're on of those engineers and are unfortunate enough to…

> Into one of United's big hubs.

> With 14 hours notice.

Also, into an office building that he just declared to be closed to all access until next week.

Re: If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now

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Post by [deleted] »

chasd00 wrote: post #175
lijogdfljk wrote: post #103

I'd love to see some code snippets that he likes.. because i can't grasp what would make good screenshots in this context. If i were Elon i'd want to see "dumb" looking code which brings together a larger, complex thing in a simple way. The larger picture is complex, but composed of simple primitives. Every piece looks unimpressive because experience taught the right abstractions to write things in a simple, testable…

yeah how much can you derive from a screenshot anyway? code formatting, variable naming? any references to classes/data structures/whatever not defined in the screenshot can't be attributed to the screenshot owner. maybe everyone is getting fired for putting '{' on a newline??? i have no idea.

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Re: If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now

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Post by jnwatson »

dceddia wrote: post #263
jnwatson wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lots of staff devs do nothing but coordinate and plan technology.

It seems like a lot of replies to this are reading it as "Lots of staff devs do nothing; they just coordinate and plan technology". Another way to read this is as saying coordination and planning are the job. They "do nothing but", as in "only do".

Exactly. I'm staff at Google.

Re: If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now

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Post by jeffskiling »

pydry wrote: post #16
zamalek wrote: post #10

I can barely believe this man started a spaceflight company. He must have had some incredibly subordinates to pull that off; not only did they have to deal with him, but they also had to bootstrap spaceflight.

I'm seriously wondering if this is drug related. I dont think he was always this erratic.

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Re: If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now

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Post by freejazz »

nemo44x wrote: post #369
martin_a wrote: post #314

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You read the news that he cancelled working from home and then locked everybody out of office? Does that look like a plan to you? Does anything that happend in the last weeks look like a plan to you? The blue checkmark disaster for example?

It looks like MBA-101, just accelerated a lot. Drop the bottom, identify the best of the best, ask everyone else to commit or get out. The solid core replaces them with the top performers in their network they want to work with. I'm convinced Twitter Blue was a test to see who gets shit done there, to help identify the top performers. Obviously the trick is keeping the top performers.

Nice Kendall Roy impression
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