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

Post by ramblerman » Mon, Oct 31, 2022, 8:08 AM UTC

sushid wrote: post #968

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I suspect it’s less a complete review and more an interview of the senior technical manager, to get a sense of whether they are up to par. Do they think about observability, alerting, refactoring, service architecture, etc. reasonably well? Are there issues with how they motivate their teams or when they give them responsibilities? Are timelines challenging but doable? “Code” is most likely “architecture” and “archit…

I'm pretty sure Twitter software engineers are considered more elite than Tesla engineers in the Valley.

Post by hoseja » Mon, Oct 31, 2022, 11:19 AM UTC

mikeryan wrote: post #282

Tiktaalik wrote: post #46

I dunno why any Twitter engineers would be really trying that hard right now. Passively destroying Twitter from within by not trying, and trying to make a billionare lose 44 billion dollars is a significantly more fun and interesting challenge than making Twitter a better product.

If these numbers are right and they're laying off 50% the workforce, half of me wonders how much Parag could raise to build a new Twitter from scratch and just hire 500 - 1000 talented folks off the street for the venture, I mean if Travis K could raise almost a billion for his shitty ghost kitchen venture I'd have to think they could get enough runway to get something launched pretty quickly. There's so many "What w…

Post by lumost » Mon, Oct 31, 2022, 1:29 PM UTC

Nomentatus wrote: post #974

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I utterly fail to understand how this would yield anything other than. Ooh they use tabs here rather than spaces! And that experimental code over there contains an unused variable! This A/B testing pipeline has minimal test cases! They ship in a day without a Q/A pipeline. All of the above would happen if any company were acquired by any other. The code style will be different, and the dev practices will be different…

But if you're part of a fast-shipping culture, your habits are a problem. FWIW, also I'd add to your list telemetry such as asserts, and concision and documentation.

Post by tablespoon » Mon, Oct 31, 2022, 3:24 PM UTC

TheChaplain wrote: post #783

Tiktaalik wrote: post #46

I dunno why any Twitter engineers would be really trying that hard right now. Passively destroying Twitter from within by not trying, and trying to make a billionare lose 44 billion dollars is a significantly more fun and interesting challenge than making Twitter a better product.

Comments like this makes me lose faith i humanity. If I were a engineer at Twitter, I'd do my absolute best up to the minute I have to leave the premises. Because I would care about the company, my colleagues and most importantly for the >200m people who use Twitter for fun, educational, business and those who depend on it. But it's probably because I'm an old beard, who value being honest and ethical, to be the bett…

Post by hnfong » Mon, Oct 31, 2022, 7:02 PM UTC

Tronno wrote: post #873

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As much as I dont like Elon, I wonder how much of them quit since they couldn't answer those questions. Probably I will get tons of downvotes, but there is this strange myth here (and on reddit) that there are no incompetent programmers. When in reality there are tons of incompetent programmers, just like there are incompetent people in any other job.

Competence is not measured by one's ability to drop a leetcode solution on command. It is tempting to think otherwise if you have spent effort cultivating that ability. But anyone with better things to do would be justified to read it as an insult.