Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf...
by bpodgursky on Saturday October 29, 2022 @10:23PM
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I think this is true and an big problem when artificially separating the top 10% from the top 20%, or top 1% from top 5%...
... but in practice, I think you will find 0 overlap in raw lines of code produced between the top 10% developers and the bottom 10% developers. Especially at a notoriously unproductive organization like Twitter, the bottom tier simply does nothing.
If Musk is trying to cut 60% of the org, he's going to have a problem doing it this way. If he's trying to cut 20%, I honestly don't think it's going to misfire much of the time.
... but in practice, I think you will find 0 overlap in raw lines of code produced between the top 10% developers and the bottom 10% developers. Especially at a notoriously unproductive organization like Twitter, the bottom tier simply does nothing.
If Musk is trying to cut 60% of the org, he's going to have a problem doing it this way. If he's trying to cut 20%, I honestly don't think it's going to misfire much of the time.