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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by pschuegr on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:14PM (#33660419)
Yes, we all know that the bigger the software creature's title is, the more lines of code the creature must leave behind. Jeff Dean is well known for changing hundreds of thousands of lines a day! he has a whole team of reviewers just following him around and LGTMing his mighty trail.
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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by alsodumb on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:04PM (#33661238)
I get the sarcasm but Jeff and Sanjay actually code quite a bit even today with their senior fellow titles: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by pschuegr on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:51PM (#33662860)
I wonder if there is a U-curve in the "code produced vs seniority" graph where once you get senior enough you have people under you who can deal with $immediate_situation for you?
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