Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company
by freyr on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:25PM
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My impression is they have an excess of technical talent. They have a huge engineering staff, and from n outside perspective, I'm not convinced their product demands it.
Google, Apple, Amazon, etc., all have much more interesting products, which in turn gives their technical staff many more interesting problems to solve.
The common advice here is "let Twitter be Twitter," i.e., they don't need to expand into new products, let alone crack VR, or self-driving cars, or drone deliveries. That path will need to accompanied by major restructuring.
Google, Apple, Amazon, etc., all have much more interesting products, which in turn gives their technical staff many more interesting problems to solve.
The common advice here is "let Twitter be Twitter," i.e., they don't need to expand into new products, let alone crack VR, or self-driving cars, or drone deliveries. That path will need to accompanied by major restructuring.