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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by morelisp on Sunday October 30, 2022 @09:31AM (#33394358)
If this is what you did all quarter (and don't have any other artifacts to show, like an ML model or system design or whatever), yes it's a red flag.

It's not because the ratio is bad - if you wrote 300 and removed 19500 that might be fine. It's just that 30 is, in an absolute sense, too low.

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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by iopq on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @06:55AM (#33419454)
I had to read 300,000 lines of code first. It's impossible to do that in a week or two.

The number of lines removed I don't remember and it changes nothing about the effort to read and understand the whole codebase

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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by morelisp on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @01:07PM (#33424037)
No, this ratio is unrealistic. Either you're making numbers up rather than describing a real situation, or yes you're far too slow for me to want to hire you.
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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by iopq on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @01:42PM (#33424603)
Reading code takes time, have you ever read through an entire 300k LOC codebase ever?

That's more lines of code than https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/

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