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It’s probably more of a filter to see who can’t even come up with 10 examples of work they’ve delivered over the course of a year. I do a lot of code reviews,

It’s probably more of a filter to see who can’t even come up with 10 examples of work they’ve delivered over the course of a year. I do a lot of code reviews, and it’s very obvious who on the team barely churns out useful code —- even just from the low density and volume of their code.

deckard1 4y ago
run a git blame on any file and you're likely to see a dozen or more people touching it. You would need a large chunk of freshly-written code unmolested by your coworkers. And what's that even going to prove? You're not inventing any novel algorithm. You're going to write whatever code your PM wanted written to support whatever stupid features or A/B test they wanted done. And Elon's going to sit there and judge the worth of that? Based on what metric?
- khazhoux 4y ago
  While fully acknowledging that Elon is a jerk… Most engineers should be able to run “git log -p —author=myname —since=‘12 months ago’” and find 10 examples of non-trivial code. And those that can’t, should be able to provide a good explanation of what they contribute instead.
michaelmrose 4y ago
It must be amazing to have such good will that even batshit crazy behavior is rationalized as somehow reasonable. Elon's going off the deep end. The primary role of leadership is to feed tasks and guidance to skilled people who your organization has selected based on known temperament and skillset. If you run a software company and don't know you employ who can code you are at titanic slipping beneath the waves status still calling on skilled ship designers. It's done he burned 44B by being a bad leader.
JohnBooty 4y ago
It’s surely this. Unless he’s even more clueless about this than I think he is…. this is his feckless way of figuring out who does what. I’m guessing the screenshots themselves will be less relevant than their owners’ description of what the depicted code actually does. This is all very dumb and I’m not defending the way he’s doing this.

deckard1 4y ago

run a git blame on any file and you're likely to see a dozen or more people touching it. You would need a large chunk of freshly-written code unmolested by your coworkers. And what's that even going to prove? You're not inventing any novel algorithm. You're going to write whatever code your PM wanted written to support whatever stupid features or A/B test they wanted done. And Elon's going to sit there and judge the worth of that? Based on what metric?

khazhoux 4y ago
While fully acknowledging that Elon is a jerk… Most engineers should be able to run “git log -p —author=myname —since=‘12 months ago’” and find 10 examples of non-trivial code. And those that can’t, should be able to provide a good explanation of what they contribute instead.

michaelmrose 4y ago

It must be amazing to have such good will that even batshit crazy behavior is rationalized as somehow reasonable. Elon's going off the deep end. The primary role of leadership is to feed tasks and guidance to skilled people who your organization has selected based on known temperament and skillset. If you run a software company and don't know you employ who can code you are at titanic slipping beneath the waves status still calling on skilled ship designers. It's done he burned 44B by being a bad leader.

JohnBooty 4y ago

It’s surely this. Unless he’s even more clueless about this than I think he is…. this is his feckless way of figuring out who does what. I’m guessing the screenshots themselves will be less relevant than their owners’ description of what the depicted code actually does. This is all very dumb and I’m not defending the way he’s doing this.