If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now

Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by kibwen on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:50PM (#33659931)

Conversely, if you had 7,000 people cleaning an apartment occupied by a few million people across the globe, that might make some sense.

There's no doubt that Twitter could be leaner than it was as of September, but haphazardly firing employees at random and alienating the most employable of the remainder into resignation is not the way to go about it. He could have spent a few months getting to know the place, but deliberately chose not to.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by ceres on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:54PM (#33660015)

And yet WhatsApp had 55 employees at acquisition.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/whatsapp-bought-for-19-b...

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by kibwen on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:18PM (#33660504)

WhatsApp is (was) an instant messenger, not an ad-supported media company.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by uxcolumbo on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:04PM (#33661244)

Did Whatsapp serve ads?

Did it have to moderate content?

Twitter is vastly more complex than Whatsapp when it comes to functionality and platforms it had to support.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by lesuorac on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:06PM (#33662196)

WhatsApp didn't get to 55 employees by having 2000 and then randomly firing 97% of them.

The argument is not that twitter can't be ran leaner, it's that the current process of leaning twitter is bad.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by Terretta on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:53PM (#33659988)

Not if all few million people live in the same few variants of one apartment, and the same cleanup cleaned all of them.

TBC, talking about the code part.

There's another Twitter, which is not code, but guest and resident services. Your example holds there.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by wwkeyboard on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:53PM (#33659987)

Exactly, go to your 25 year old HotMail account and open the spam folder. That's what they've been fighting.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by butterlesstoast on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:53PM (#33659983)

Best comment hahaha. Made my day.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by selimthegrim on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:06PM (#33660271)

So Twitter is the movie Mother?

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