Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

Post by zzzeek » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 12:33 AM UTC

spaceywilly wrote: post #7

This is pretty standard procedure when a company gets bought. The new owners will conduct a review and decide who to keep and who to get rid of. They have probably been given a target of how many people they want to lay off and are evaluating who is worth keeping. It’s not worth staying at a company that gets acquired, you’ll either get laid off or be asked to do the same work with less people, and awful morale.

Post by scaramanga » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 12:34 AM UTC

XorNot wrote: post #126

sidibe wrote: post #28

I think the goal here is to get people to quit voluntarily by doing the most ridiculous things possible.

With the obvious problem that all the valuable people know their worth, and are just sending CVs to Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Meta right now.

Post by adventured » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 12:34 AM UTC

throwup wrote: post #186

recuter wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Distributed systems, the large-scale and spread-out network that Twitter is composed of, are not the automaker’s specialty, the person said. You can giggle along with the anonymous source who wasn't involved if you wish but Tesla collects a rather large amount of telemetry and has all manner of micro services crap internally just like Twitter. I imagine the Twitter codebase itself is a farcical Rube Goldberg machin…

> For an unfathomable amount of the people working at twitter the answer will be zero lines of code. True, but an accusatory calendar invite still isn't a good way to do this. He could find out himself from the commit history/JIRA tickets, with the additional benefit of not putting people on the defensive and making a poor first impression. Then again, relationship building isn't really his style, so this doesn't sur…

Post by arrow7000 » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 12:34 AM UTC

ajmurmann wrote: post #156

system16 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's just another thing to add to the pile that should make anybody question why on earth people think he is a genius. The mythos he has created around himself is comical and it's mind-blowing that anyone actually believes it. He literally spends his entire day trolling on social media, yet people think he's out there solving the world's greatest engineering problems.

If nothing else house trolling on social media helps to hype up a dedicated fanbase which drives up the multiple on the stock value and allows to hire people to work on moonshot projects. Several of those projects of his would have never gotten funded in more conventional companies and even if they had, the funding would likely have gotten cut when no immediate, monetary success was visible. All this is only possible…

Post by uerobert » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 12:34 AM UTC

marstall wrote: post #26

I was thinking the "30-60" day time window may be a somewhat subtle way of catching out engineers who haven't written a thing in that amount of time. that would be one way to identify low-performers. not unproblematic by a long shot, but quick, and probably somewhat effective. and it wouldn't require any deep knowledge of twitter's codebase on the part of the reviewers.