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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by qwytw on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:25PM (#33662482)
I would fine it hard to make this assumption based on how he's behaving.

Also does he really have that many at Twitter people whom he trusts? And are there many who trust him?

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by khazhoux on Friday November 18, 2022 @05:46PM (#33663726)
I think he’s brought in buddies, and heads of engineering from tesla and spacex.
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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by qwytw on Saturday November 19, 2022 @05:06AM (#33668797)
Right, they must be experts at what Twitter is doing. Industrial, electric, rocket engineering etc. is basically the same as frontend/backend development.

To be fair I can't tell if your post is sarcasm or not.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by khazhoux on Saturday November 19, 2022 @06:25AM (#33669192)
Why would it be sarcasm? I read somewhere (?) that Elon brought in his eng leads from SpaceX and Tesla to help him sort things out.

At any rate, I think you'd be mistaken to believe that there aren't top-notch software engineers at SpaceX and Tesla. They both have front-end tools, massive backend systems, data pipelines at huge scale, metrics and analysis systems, and so forth.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by qwytw on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @08:27AM (#33705506)
> help him sort things out

I doubt this could have a significantly different outcome than just firing people at random (or using some bizarre metrics like lines of code committed). That's probably irrelevant if Musk's goal is to simply drastically cut the number of employees at Twitter one way or the other.

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