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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by Aeolun on Saturday October 29, 2022 @08:35PM (#33389543)
New people regularly join our company and evaluate our code. Why do you think you couldn’t do that without joining?
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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by SketchySeaBeast on Saturday October 29, 2022 @09:03PM (#33389770)
How long does it take them to be fully productive in the systems?
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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by Aeolun on Sunday October 30, 2022 @12:22AM (#33391045)
About 6 months. That doesn’t mean they don’t instantly have a general idea of the quality of the codebase. The amount of WTF’s decreases significantly after the first 2 months (when they give up and accept that that is just how it is).
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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by closeparen on Saturday October 29, 2022 @09:23PM (#33389900)
New people regularly join our company and take a few weeks to become productive at making small changes to one or two modules out of 5,000+ in the enterprise.
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