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"Twitter's management STILL trying to recruit back experienced software engineers who left Twitter last week, opting in to not be part of the "hardcore" Twitter

"Twitter's management STILL trying to recruit back experienced software engineers who left Twitter last week, opting in to not be part of the "hardcore" Twitter 2.0. Wonder how many of them return, knowing they also can be fired at any time based on a single code review." Why would you return to something that will try to spit you out at the first sign of trouble? Or have those poor people working on a visa no choice?

JohnTHaller 4y ago
Why would you give up your 3 month severance to come back for 80hr work weeks for the same salary with the risk of getting fired at any moment based on a weekly screenshot of 'salient' code and then only getting 1 month severance?
evanelias 4y ago
Relatedly, I really wish people would stop calling this a "code review". That term already means something different than "shallow performance evaluation used as a justification for completely arbitrary firings with no notice". It's horrifying to allow well-established industry concepts and terms to be redefined overnight by a single incompetent individual.
- smcl 4y ago
  Yeah I imagine it's probably not exactly a traditional code review by any stretch of the imagination. It would be interesting to know exactly what it involved though, the previous instructions (print out X pages of code, present Y "salient" lines of code) do not fill me with confidence that they are prepared to accurately assess anyone's competence or lack thereof. I honestly wonder if it's as farcical as some of the jokes about it: https://twitter.com/mnateshyamalan/status/1593723670396018691 https://twitter.com/mnateshyamalan/status/159372367039601869...
koonsolo 4y ago
> Why would you return to something that will try to spit you out at the first sign of trouble? First you ask a crazy upfront payment to come back, then you ask a crazy wage per month. If they agree, you're mad at yourself for not asking more. That's how I would do it. Like a x10 sum of money.

JohnTHaller 4y ago

Why would you give up your 3 month severance to come back for 80hr work weeks for the same salary with the risk of getting fired at any moment based on a weekly screenshot of 'salient' code and then only getting 1 month severance?

evanelias 4y ago

Relatedly, I really wish people would stop calling this a "code review". That term already means something different than "shallow performance evaluation used as a justification for completely arbitrary firings with no notice". It's horrifying to allow well-established industry concepts and terms to be redefined overnight by a single incompetent individual.

smcl 4y ago
Yeah I imagine it's probably not exactly a traditional code review by any stretch of the imagination. It would be interesting to know exactly what it involved though, the previous instructions (print out X pages of code, present Y "salient" lines of code) do not fill me with confidence that they are prepared to accurately assess anyone's competence or lack thereof. I honestly wonder if it's as farcical as some of the jokes about it: https://twitter.com/mnateshyamalan/status/1593723670396018691 https://twitter.com/mnateshyamalan/status/159372367039601869...

koonsolo 4y ago

> Why would you return to something that will try to spit you out at the first sign of trouble? First you ask a crazy upfront payment to come back, then you ask a crazy wage per month. If they agree, you're mad at yourself for not asking more. That's how I would do it. Like a x10 sum of money.