Elon force-ranked Twitter engineers & fired the bottom based on

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His metric was "lines of code written".

Kafka0nKoffee · Accepted Answer

Why is anyone surprised at this? The guy is a knucklehead, brilliant bullshitter, but a knucklehead. If he didn't have Papa's money to kick-start his business and wasn't white nobody would give him the light of the day. He thinks nuking Mars will make it warmer and habitable for humans so??

n931ufsikf · Answer

the entire software industry knows that unskilled programmers write more lines of code than skilled ones. I'm so confused.

qwnYT3c24 · Answer

VPs were told to stack rank their departments and then compiled lists of who to keep on at the company the weekend he took over.

peodis · Answer

Well that's stupid. It's like firing people in a factory by looking at the number of manufactured widgets they can crank out. What is this industrial age management style? It's lunacy tbh

bca791 · Answer

I heard similar. My friend worked on the accessibility team and they trashed the whole org. They probably didn't have huge LoC, but as a communications platform for literally everything, it's very crucial work that is now in limbo

Elon force-ranked Twitter engineers & fired the bottom based on

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