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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by ramblerman on Monday October 31, 2022 @04:08AM (#33403159)
Why is that. At first glance the tesla engineering problems seem far more complex no?

I get twitter has some issues of scale to solve, but its tweets, even netflix would be far more challenging imo.

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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by hoseja on Monday October 31, 2022 @05:02AM (#33403425)
But twitter contacts can give you that blue checkmark.
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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by sushid on Monday October 31, 2022 @08:52PM (#33415580)
Honestly, it's mostly because they pay more. They're more selective and thus have better engineering talent meaning Twitter engineers on the average are going to have a better engineering skills than Tesla software engineers

Tesla engineers likely are drinking the Kool-aid or were not talented enough to get offers at better companies.

Lastly, it's not "just tweets" at their scale. That's like saying Netflix is just storing some video files in CDNs.

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