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I worked there at the time and ending up running the software infrastructure teams that fixed all these problems. The beer wasn't a reward, it was because peopl
by evanweaver 7y ago
I worked there at the time and ending up running the software infrastructure teams that fixed all these problems. The beer wasn't a reward, it was because people were stressed and morale was low. Nobody brought the site down on purpose.
What really made me mad was when we hired consultants and the contract would end, usually without much success because Twitter's problems were not normal problems, and then they would send us a fancy gift basket with our own wasted money.
Maciej, we are still waiting for you to ship the executive dashboard.
- idlewords 7y agoThat dashboard supported something like a dozen people over its lifetime. One person would start writing it, then quit, and be replaced by another person who rewrote it in their preferred language, and then the cycle would repeat. It was a VC-funded welfare program for slackers and I miss it greatly.
- nevf1 7y agoI lol'd at "welfare program for slackers" - That's the dream really... Find a chaotic workplace that lets you play with your favorite languages and no real tangible outcome.