In what world is a print out of code proof of work? This sounds way too stupid to be believable.

Perhaps the two people don’t have knowledge of the situation.

Perhaps Twitter is staffed by middle managers who sell well in interviews but have zero fucking clue.

I’d like to see Twitter fire the cottage industry of professional non-contributors that has seeped into tech for the pay.

Employees like the TikToking “Facebook PM” who showed off 20 mins of emailing for work and the rest of the day branching/lunching with their crew need to go.

TFA says that the code was to be printed to show to Musk, not to these middle managers.

Anxiety and a lot of gossip can make people do dumb things, like make non-technical middle managers issue stupid edicts because they don’t know about git logs.

I’ve worked for orgs where engineer head count alone pushed 250 people. The number of people in power with no technical skills managing technical workers was a huge waste of time.

You seem to be responding to points not made by the article (or the person you’re responding to).

The article was observed, not the events. I know PR people who plant such articles for profit, all the details are vague enough to seem possible. Even the supposed pictures of eng folk with printed code could be in on the gag. Don’t forget CNBC got trolled by a guy faking being an ex Twitter staffer. Why not troll the public who are far more obsessed with office life than doing real things for others?

Why bother taking the article seriously? It’s unverifiable. I see no reason to give it a sincere discussion.

Context, mostly. This extra discussion in your reply is actually fair and suitable as a top-level comment.

> Perhaps the two people don’t have knowledge of the situation.

How about the photo of the Twitter engineer holding her printed source code?

I also saw tweets from other Twitter engineers talking about printing out their code.

It’s a world where an oversized ego overpaid by twice for a platform that can’t run itself without constant work.

Of course the best way to get it to run smoothly is have people show their work with printouts to prove that they shouldn’t be fired.

People outside SV think its full of smart people, but when you work there, you will see how real the TV show Silicon Valley is. I am convinced if not for the money, a lot of people would leave.

Just you wait until you see Printcoin