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No, what implies the sitting around doing nothing part is the lack of anything useful being shipped for years combined with losing money for all but 2 years of
by Karunamon 4y ago
No, what implies the sitting around doing nothing part is the lack of anything useful being shipped for years combined with losing money for all but 2 years of their life as a public company combined with the absurd manager to engineer ratio. The cushy perks are just a cherry on top.
Nothing Twitter is doing requires the amount of people they have. So what are all of those people doing?
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoLARPing welfare queens OFC.
- saagarjha 4y agoJust because things aren't shipping doesn't mean nobody is doing anything. Plenty of companies that circled the drain had lots of smart people doing excellent work while the rest of the company failed to make money.
- Karunamon 4y agoWhat would the external signs of a company with lots of deadweight be if not lack of shipping combined with serial unprofitability and a bunch of middle management with a headcount not commensurate with their activities?
- saagarjha 4y agoTo be entirely honest, I think Twitter is serially bad at shipping things and also hired too hard during the pandemic. That said I stand by my earlier point, which is that measuring this via "I see a bunch of people on TikTok drinking lattes" is about the dumbest way to do it, because it's nothing special in this industry. What you really want to look at is "how long is it taking to ship things" and "what does code churn look like" and "what stakeholders are involved in a new product launch", which are generally much harder to see.