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Or by firing the whole team responsible and starting over.

spacemadness 4y ago
Yeah, good luck with that. I guess if you pay enough they will come but they need to settle in and figure out a plan. It won’t happen immediately. I certainly wouldn’t sign up to work for a company that just fires entire orgs without a real plan.
- christophilus 4y ago
  > without a real plan My guess is there's a plan. You don't spend $44B or whatever it was without a plan. Or... well, I wouldn't. But with Musk, anything's possible.
  - dylan604 4y ago
    To be fair, he tried pretty hard to not do it. He ran his mouth, now he's dealing with it as he sees fit since he bought it. He can throw a tantrum all he wants. He's never going to see the repercussions of his knee jerk reactions, but all of the people on the receiving end are now rethinking their holiday plans. I honestly hope he ends up killing Twitter. Maybe we can convince him to buy the next social platform and then lather, rinse, repeat until he becomes the savior we didn't want but the savior we needed in eliminating the cancer that social has become.
  - dragontamer 4y ago
    Elon Musk's plan _literally_ 3 weeks ago was to complain to the judge that too many bots were on Twitter, and therefore Elon Musk doesn't have to buy Twitter. Some of us have more memory than a goldfish ya know? It wasn't even a month ago that Elon Musk was 100% full tilt "too many bots on Twitter / Twitter not worth this money". We get that Musk has to _pretend_ that he likes the company now. But we all know its the judge who forced him to do this.
babelfish 4y ago
Do you know long it takes to staff and train an entire data engineering department? It'll be minimum a year until its staffed to appropriate levels given the sheer amount of data Twitter generates every day, and another year for that team to reach any level of competence. He's driving Twitter into the ground.
- adammarples 4y ago
  I expect they will hire data engineers that don't need a year of training. It's not that hard.
  - babelfish 4y ago
    It's not that hard if they have access to sufficient training, organizational knowledge, and mentorship. That was just wiped out entirely. Every new data engineering hire for the next year will be figuring it out from scratch.
- christkv 4y ago
  I bet you he is bringing in a team of Tesla engineers from their ml and data science departments.
  - feet 4y ago
    Because they've made so much progress on autonomous driving, right?
- alfalfasprout 4y ago
  LOL @ the person that thinks it's not hard to hire experienced data engineers. There's tons of junior folks around but hiring someone that has experience with working with complex data at the scale twitter has is not easy at all.
  - splitstud 4y ago

Yeah, good luck with that. I guess if you pay enough they will come but they need to settle in and figure out a plan. It won’t happen immediately. I certainly wouldn’t sign up to work for a company that just fires entire orgs without a real plan.

christophilus 4y ago
> without a real plan My guess is there's a plan. You don't spend $44B or whatever it was without a plan. Or... well, I wouldn't. But with Musk, anything's possible.
- dylan604 4y ago
  To be fair, he tried pretty hard to not do it. He ran his mouth, now he's dealing with it as he sees fit since he bought it. He can throw a tantrum all he wants. He's never going to see the repercussions of his knee jerk reactions, but all of the people on the receiving end are now rethinking their holiday plans. I honestly hope he ends up killing Twitter. Maybe we can convince him to buy the next social platform and then lather, rinse, repeat until he becomes the savior we didn't want but the savior we needed in eliminating the cancer that social has become.
- dragontamer 4y ago
  Elon Musk's plan _literally_ 3 weeks ago was to complain to the judge that too many bots were on Twitter, and therefore Elon Musk doesn't have to buy Twitter. Some of us have more memory than a goldfish ya know? It wasn't even a month ago that Elon Musk was 100% full tilt "too many bots on Twitter / Twitter not worth this money". We get that Musk has to _pretend_ that he likes the company now. But we all know its the judge who forced him to do this.

babelfish 4y ago

Do you know long it takes to staff and train an entire data engineering department? It'll be minimum a year until its staffed to appropriate levels given the sheer amount of data Twitter generates every day, and another year for that team to reach any level of competence. He's driving Twitter into the ground.

adammarples 4y ago
I expect they will hire data engineers that don't need a year of training. It's not that hard.
- babelfish 4y ago
  It's not that hard if they have access to sufficient training, organizational knowledge, and mentorship. That was just wiped out entirely. Every new data engineering hire for the next year will be figuring it out from scratch.
christkv 4y ago
I bet you he is bringing in a team of Tesla engineers from their ml and data science departments.
- feet 4y ago
  Because they've made so much progress on autonomous driving, right?
alfalfasprout 4y ago
LOL @ the person that thinks it's not hard to hire experienced data engineers. There's tons of junior folks around but hiring someone that has experience with working with complex data at the scale twitter has is not easy at all.
- splitstud 4y ago