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That's fair as far as kicking the tires on the truth value of management's claims, but what Elon's doing here is performance management. Deciding someone's work
by closeparen 4y ago
That's fair as far as kicking the tires on the truth value of management's claims, but what Elon's doing here is performance management. Deciding someone's work is bad and they should be fired, does imply that you know how the work ought to have been done instead.
- grogenaut 4y agoDoes it tho? If you're cutting 70% of 1000-2000 coders is that what you're doing, fully understanding twitter, or are you just looking for dead weight or unimportant systems and axing those immediately?
- x86x87 4y agoThis is IMHO a very naive take on software engineering and on keeping a complex system running. There is no way we're going to see a 70% cut and twitter survives. There is also no way an outside party cam figure out what the "unimportant" systems are in days or even weeks. Realistically if you want to cut you start by reviewing everything and pretend you just want to understand. You place key people in key positions and help them build an understanding. After 3-6 months of observing maybe you can do some cutting.
- grogenaut 4y agoOh I 100% agree with everything you said here. You do due diligence before. You don't just blindly cut 70%. I was just saying if I had to (because I was being asked to) cut 70% or even 10% immediately that's what I would do. But I'm also not sure I'd take that job. I'm just enjoying the popcorn cause no one seems to know what's going on.
- x86x87 4y agoDue diligence happens before not after the deal closes. This is not due diligence, it's a clown show