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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by khazhoux on Saturday November 19, 2022 @02:29PM (#33673712)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33660042

I wrote:

> In an org with thousands of software engineers, shouldn’t most of them be writing code?

And this person's reply was:

> no, I don't think most of them should be writing code

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by michaelmrose on Saturday November 19, 2022 @09:55PM (#33677663)
Read more than one word answer you expected to find.

> I wouldn't put any kind of quantifier on it. I'm willing to bet most, if not all Twitter developers were above average across the industry and were producing work of value.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by khazhoux on Sunday November 20, 2022 @02:56PM (#33684631)
He literally says he doesn't expect most software engineers to be coding. That's outlandish, and his follow-up that thousands of Twitter engineers somehow can still be "producing work or value" without coding is ridiculous.
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