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

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Post by scaramanga »

SanjayMehta wrote: post #185

> some engineers received a calendar invite Friday, telling them: “Stop printing, please be ready to show your recent code,” a reference to engineers being asked to show the code they had written in the last 30 to 60 days on their computers. > The note continues, “Please come prepared with code as a backup to review on your own machines with Elon.” It seems to me that some engineers are being evaluated for their suit…

To which the reply would be "cut the bullshit, we both know you don't give a shit about code, so just show me which demeaning hoop you need me to jump through and what I'm going to get for doing it."

And then just hope it isn't quid pro quo sexual harassment.

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Post by voxl »

dmak wrote: post #238

Comments are just full of people who want to bring down Musk for the most trivial things without acknowledging the amount of good he has put forth. FYI, I don't own a Tesla or own their stock or own any stock in Musk owned companies. I don't even follow his twitter account.

When it comes to work place environment I have not heard a single good thing about Musk. And that is what is being discussed here.

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Post by jsrcout »

gwilikers wrote: post #62
throwaway728274 wrote: post #29

For a variety of performance car nerd related reasons, I’ve not paid too much attention to Tesla. But iirc, there have been a couple threads here and elsewhere about Tesla making “expedient” choices in Eng, with a lot of horrible bodges around critical components. It definitely left me with an impression that Tesla was a place with low engineering quality — though again, I have no source at hand here, and don’t feel…

I know of this Twitter thread, but not sure of the authenticity. https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404645376

I don't know if it's authentic either, but this bit from the thread sure is interesting:

> autopilot had _really_ high turnover at one point before release because some guy from space x came in and gave the entire dept a C pointer/memory test because Elon said they were "late" to ship.

https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939642243309569/...

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Post by colechristensen »

system16 wrote: post #34
Waterluvian wrote: post #21

I’m still looking for a concise term for “someone who claims to be an expert but immediately reveals beyond any doubt that they have no clue what they’re saying, simply by opening their mouth on the subject.” Having Tesla engineers over to review Twitter code is definitely that. It’s ridiculous.

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.

The things SpaceX and Tesla have done under his direction speak for themselves. Of course you can find silly exaggerations of his contributions, but it is likewise ridiculous to deny his influence on their success.

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Post by throwaway0asd »

dh2022 wrote: post #302
dzink wrote: post #261

Musk is a seller above all else. Every day he finds a new way to draw attention to his projects. The news about Twitter give him even more distribution and by nature more sales towards Tesla and his other companies. Tesla engineers on site for interviews is a great idea for Twitter and for Tesla as both get more PR than before. A lot of people have lost interest in Twitter for more than political reasons and I’m exci…

Maybe. But is all of this PR worth $44 billion?

Yes, Twitter was the primary tool he used to inflate the market value of his properties and manipulate the market in his interest.

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Post by lukeasrodgers »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #253
lohii wrote: post #154

If someone completely new to my codebase came along and tried to evaluate my code I'd laugh. You can't jump in and "evaluate" without knowing context and being familiar with the features.

What’s more funny is how people commonly believe like this their code is so special or different than everyone else’s. Reverse engineering a large code base is not anywhere as hard as most software engineers somehow believe. I was tasked with analyzing a large code base from a company that my employer had been an investor in and as part of their investment had been given IP rights, the company employees were floored…

Reusing code in unexpected ways seems like what would be predicted in this scenario, if you agree with the position Naur advances in Programming as Theory Building (which I mostly do).

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Post by braingenious »

colechristensen wrote: post #305
braingenious wrote: post #151

All of this is so funny in general. It seems possible that Twitter might go the way of Tumblr in that goofy policy changes alienate the core userbase. I couldn’t imagine betting billions of dollars on a property that could basically just become a valuable-ish domain in the future.

Nah, there’s nowhere else for cable news to pull hot takes from social media.

Facebook? The world wide web? Another website we haven’t seen yet?

I remember when the only social network was MySpace and then it wasn’t.

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

Aeolun wrote: post #232
lohii wrote: post #154

If someone completely new to my codebase came along and tried to evaluate my code I'd laugh. You can't jump in and "evaluate" without knowing context and being familiar with the features.

New people regularly join our company and evaluate our code. Why do you think you couldn’t do that without joining?

How long does it take them to be fully productive in the systems?
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