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

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

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Post by cdavid »

segmondy wrote: post #529
tasty_freeze wrote: post #203

I don't at all object to code reviews/evaluation, but the thing I wonder about is this: I rarely open an empty file and write some big block of code. 98% of the time I'm fixing bugs in legacy code or shimming in some new feature. It would be trivial to produce the diffs I generated in the past 30 or 60 days, but the volume of code isn't really a great metric for my productivity. There may be some three line change th…

I once reviewed code for a company that got purchased. I took less than a few hours to reach conclusion. There were 7 developers and in 2 months only one was writing code. The entire team but that one developer was fired. Twitter has grown a reputation for being slow and a rest and vest haven. Won't be surprised if they are looking for people not writing code. On a different note, If you're in a large org and all you…

why do you need a code review for this ? It is easily scriptable w/ GH, and I would expect whatever system used by twitter to support this kind of basic functionalities.

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

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Post by theteapot »

ipqk wrote: post #65

I'd be pissed off if I were a TSLA stock owner. Is Twitter paying Tesla to contract out these employees for their work? Otherwise, it's tons of thousands of dollars Tesla is pissing away on behalf of the CEO's side-hustle.

They should be happy. Get your engineers out and about for a bit, dump on some disposable soon to be ex Twitter developers to boost their morale while at it. Genius.

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

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Post by fallingknife »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #75
ipqk wrote: post #65

I'd be pissed off if I were a TSLA stock owner. Is Twitter paying Tesla to contract out these employees for their work? Otherwise, it's tons of thousands of dollars Tesla is pissing away on behalf of the CEO's side-hustle.

You'd arguably have a case that Musk is not acting in the interest of Tesla and is using his Tesla position to enrich himself rather than the Tesla company. Exactly what the "CEO is supposed to serve shareholders" is all about.

You probably wouldn't since those engineers probably signed consulting agreements with Twitter, and are being paid by Twitter, not Tesla for this work.

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

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Post by cdavid »

sheeshkebab wrote: post #705
segmondy wrote: post #529

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I once reviewed code for a company that got purchased. I took less than a few hours to reach conclusion. There were 7 developers and in 2 months only one was writing code. The entire team but that one developer was fired. Twitter has grown a reputation for being slow and a rest and vest haven. Won't be surprised if they are looking for people not writing code. On a different note, If you're in a large org and all you…

> I once reviewed code for a company that got purchased. I took less than a few hours to reach conclusion. There were 7 developers and in 2 months only one was writing code. The entire team but that one developer was fired. Twitter has grown a reputation for being slow and a rest and vest haven. Won't be surprised if they are looking for people not writing code. I ran across some developers (in multiple orgs over the…

LOC produced is a good example of what I call "negative" metric: high value does not mean much, but low value is a good indication that something is up.

As a manager, I won't care that dev A produces 2k vs dev B produced 4k. But if I see dev C would produced only 30 loc over say a quarter, something is most likely off.

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

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Post by catmanjan »

bamboozled wrote: post #649
yalogin wrote: post #614

What code is he reviewing? And why is he reviewing it? There must be millions of lines of code. Also, why bring in Tesla employees? Twitter employees are also his own, they could do they review for him. Just shows how musk feels about Twitter and the people there. Such disrespect.

Agreed, it feels like a severely degrading and unnecessarily hostile act.

In what way is it degrading to show your work?

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Post by DeathArrow »

lexandstuff wrote: post #326
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.

It seems almost inevitable it will go the way of Tumblr, Friendster, Hi5, Bebo, MySpace, Orkut, Google+ and soon Facebook. Social networks don't have a particularly long life expectancy.

4chan is doing good

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

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Post by ed_elliott_asc »

zackees wrote: post #477
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'd arguably have a case that Musk is not acting in the interest of Tesla and is using his Tesla position to enrich himself rather than the Tesla company. Exactly what the "CEO is supposed to serve shareholders" is all about.

There’s the presumption here that Tesla is footing the bill. For all you know Tesla hired out of these workers on contract and the Twitter is footing the bill.

But surely at the very least there is an opportunity cost of the Tesla engineers not working. What is the point of them if they don’t work?

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Post by bamboozled »

catmanjan wrote: post #745
bamboozled wrote: post #649

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, it feels like a severely degrading and unnecessarily hostile act.

In what way is it degrading to show your work?

So you'd be ok if you come to work tomorrow and some dudes are there all of a sudden asking you to print off your code looking for flaws so you can be fired?

Even if that's not whats going on, you'd assume something similar ? Why else would people hardly familiar with a code base, lacking a lot of context want to randomly start scrutinizing your work ?

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Post by ZeKK14 »

sheeshkebab wrote: post #705
segmondy wrote: post #529

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I once reviewed code for a company that got purchased. I took less than a few hours to reach conclusion. There were 7 developers and in 2 months only one was writing code. The entire team but that one developer was fired. Twitter has grown a reputation for being slow and a rest and vest haven. Won't be surprised if they are looking for people not writing code. On a different note, If you're in a large org and all you…

> I once reviewed code for a company that got purchased. I took less than a few hours to reach conclusion. There were 7 developers and in 2 months only one was writing code. The entire team but that one developer was fired. Twitter has grown a reputation for being slow and a rest and vest haven. Won't be surprised if they are looking for people not writing code. I ran across some developers (in multiple orgs over the…

This is also a sign that code reviews are not working properly (either missing due to a team too small; or not enough time invested to do them properly; or people are not "free" enough to tell their coworker that their code is bad; or it was done too late, once there isn't enough time to fix it; etc).

That's mostly an organisation failure.

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

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Post by 8cmj7A »

ergocoder wrote: post #402
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure looks that way. https://twitter.com/leahculver/status/1586145696163373056

She later tweeted "Just following orders" on the Musk's tweet "comedy is now legal on Twitter". Are we sure this news is even real? I have several friends at Twitter who said they didn't hear anything about that. Leah Culver is also the one who bought the pinked painted lady for $3m. She has the fuck you money and doesn't really need any job. This is not the first time for journalists to fall for pranks either. Just…

She put the house back on the market for what she paid. Not sure she’s quite at f-you money, but who knows. Maybe she was leveling up.
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