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I don't know. It's not good that people are getting treated poorly - if anything, twitter should take more responsibility here. But if it's really "lazy develop

I don't know. It's not good that people are getting treated poorly - if anything, twitter should take more responsibility here. But if it's really "lazy developers" then maybe it's better if they work somewhere else and increase value for our society. Maybe some of them just went to twitter for the name and compensation but don't like to work for a corporate (like me for example). It's probably better for everyone if they go somewhere where they are happier and more productive.

jesuscript 4y ago
I think it’s a good lesson for people picking companies. In the honeymoon phase of tech, the mythology created was that these elite startups have the type of culture where the boss is a revolutionary, you pick your own hours, beer and food, company outings, meaningful work, prestige, unlimited vacation, etc. Well the truth is when you walk into a company that hires people for a quarter million dollars at scale, you are truly a number on a spreadsheet. The only way you can cut budget on 500 engineers at that price is not by firing Bob the underperformer, but instead 1/5 or 2/5 of that entire staff. It should make you wonder what is that leetcode for? You are not that important or expensive in the backroom of some enterprise or medium sized business to be slashed like that. But when you are part of a 50 million dollar budget, bet your ass you have a 50/50 chance of being part of that 25 million the company suddenly wants to save. The underperformer stuff has nothing to do with it.