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 sagebird on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:36PM (#33661725)

Elon isn’t an idiot who has never been around real world software development. He will happily accept:” Here's a screenshot of where I fixed an off-by-one error, but it took two weeks of unraveling 137 microservices to find which RPC was guilty.”

Not to mention, it plays into his perception that twitter architecture is too bloated to be productive.

He is likely looking for people who have zero or less than 10 things to show.

I bet you could squeeze by with one big thing to show and nothing else if it is explained.

This sort of net would catch lots of zero screenshot responses for multiple reasons- I doubt there will be any scrutiny applied.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by rurp on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:16PM (#33666053)

> He is likely looking for people who have zero or less than 10 things to show.

If this were actually the goal, he could just find a couple hardcore coders who know how to use git and ask them to produce a list of commits by developer for every repo he cares about.

It's hard to tell if he actually thinks he can evaluate people via code screenshots or if this is another dumb hazing ritual, but I can't believe he's really trying to figure out who writes code from this.

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