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Slower feature velocity? Less innovation? Based on a few articles I've read, it appears he may be bringing developers from Tesla into Twitter but I have not se
by LinuxBender 4y ago
Slower feature velocity? Less innovation?
Based on a few articles I've read, it appears he may be bringing developers from Tesla into Twitter but I have not seen anything from him directly stating that. I doubt they will hit the ground running but with time can probably dig into the code and processes.
Sadly I've been in an industry that was focused on taking over after entire IT/engineering/development teams were let go. As rough as it is for the people let go, it is equally demoralizing to pick up the pieces from people either being let go or that were let go. It can be done accepting it will be rough around the edges at first. During the dot-com bust I was one of the people that had to sit with the soon to be let go team members and document their job and automate as much of it as I could. That's all I did for a couple of years.
- snowwrestler 4y agoIf Musk is actually using Tesla devs at Twitter he better have a rock solid contract for service between the two companies. Otherwise he opens himself up to a shareholder lawsuit for misuse of Tesla corporate resources.
- kjksf 4y agoA civil lawsuit is always about money. To win money in a lawsuit you need to show damages. As a shareholder, the damages would be drop in stock price. Good luck convincing all 12 jurors that Tesla's stock price dropped because a few Tesla engineers did a code review of Twitter code. Especially given that Tesla stock tends to go up, not down (recent beatings due to macro nonwithstanding).
- tpxl 4y agoU wot. If Tesla engineers do work for free for a company owned by one of the shareholders, there's clear damage there in the form of misallocation of resources.
- Keyframe 4y agoWho said for free? Twitter pays Tesla which renders that service. That's as clean as it can be.
- snowwrestler 4y agoUh huh. Let’s say Musk writes himself a check from Tesla for an extra $100,000. He cashes it, but the next day TSLA is up. No problems there? No legal risk? Now let’s say that instead of a check, he gifts himself $100,000 of Tesla engineering time.
- whimsicalism 4y ago> it appears he may be bringing developers from Tesla into Twitter Two different calibre of engineers, doubt this will work out very well.
- kybernetyk 4y agoyeah, one group are real engineers. the other ones turn sql queries into html to make people click on ads.
- whimsicalism 4y agoTaking your comment in good faith: A lot more engineering goes into "make people click on ads" than you seem to be realizing. And like or not but monetization is at the core of Twitter's business.
- Cupertino95014 4y agoaside from the snarkiness: OP seems to assume anyone who works for Tesla must be inferior to anyone from Twitter. Dubious.
- whimsicalism 4y agoI'm talking in aggregates, of course I don't assume that because it would be totally illogical. I'll be explicit in my assumption. If it were actually possible to rank engineers in some measure of productivity/effectiveness, the median at Twitter would be more product/effective than the median at Tesla. This gap would widen if we are talking about productivity/effectiveness at tasks necessary for Twitter's business.
- Cupertino95014 4y agoUtter nonsense and snobbery.
- whimsicalism 4y ago
- RoyTyrell 4y agoI've done that too, it really sucks. My boss wasn't thrilled about it either but it was a directive from a lot higher up than she was. I took that as cue to look for a new job myself, as did others. Not everyone left but enough such that between the layoffs and the devs/BAs that quit caused a project to slip such that they had to pay "fines" as designated in the contract and a couple senior leaders were let go.