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It's a bigger deal than that because he was put back in charge of the engineering organization for real. That means that from when I started there to now, the e
by sulam 10y ago
It's a bigger deal than that because he was put back in charge of the engineering organization for real. That means that from when I started there to now, the engineering leadership has been:
Mike Abbott
Dick Costolo -> (Chris Fry, Adam Messinger, Mazen Rawashdeh)
Chris Fry
Alex Roetter
Adam Messinger
???
Not as bad as product, but illustrative, and there were far more VP/Director changes in there along the way. In general you knew you were in for a re-org that affected you in a material way every 6 months. I had 10 managers in well under 5 years. It's not surprising many people just crawl in a hole and hope they get ignored while they vest and get stuff done.
- throwawaybird9 10y agoThose guys may have had the fancy titles but the real engineering leadership at Twitter was Raffi.
- sulam 10y agoDepends on your org. Alex had just as much pull as Raffi, arguably more since he got the org he wanted eventually. (Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Raffi and Alex has the empathy of a gnat, but in terms of sheer influence it was Alex/Raffi and then everyone else).