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The bizarre micromanaging "code reviews" from a CEO are textbook bad management, like something out of a joke from the 90s. Whatever you think of Musk or his g

by TillE 4y ago

The bizarre micromanaging "code reviews" from a CEO are textbook bad management, like something out of a joke from the 90s. Whatever you think of Musk or his goals, it's just not something that makes any sense for him to be spending his time on.

cmsj 4y ago
Imagine being him and sitting in his little billionaire playpen and having the choice of playing with the car thing, the space rocket thing, or the website thing and picking option 3. Literal space rockets. You couldn't tear me away from Starbase Texas.
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- hw 4y ago
  If you were him, would you not focus your time on making sure what you just bought will become even more successful and be what you envisioned it to be when you bought it? Of course, one might argue against buying Twitter in the first place, but that’s done. What makes you think that SpaceX and Tesla aren’t already in good hands?
  - dsr_ 4y ago
    SpaceX and Tesla are in much better hands right now, since Musk's attention is on Twitter.
- ssnistfajen 4y ago
  He did just spend $44 billion to acquire "the website thing", most of which were leveraged loans using his wealth as collateral. So some heightened attention is a given, just not this type of micromanagement when it's clearly wreaking havoc in the foreseeable short term.
ergocoder 4y ago
bizarre is the right word. Musk's actions are so bizarre and inefficient. He could have used perf review...
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jstummbillig 4y ago
Consider he probably considered whether it's worth his time and arrived at a different conclusion. Giving his track record that's at the very least interesting.
prirun 4y ago
My guess is it doesn't have much to do with code reviews and more to do with firing people for other reasons that are not legally allowed: older workers, wants to work remotely, HAS to work remotely because they moved assuming "remote forever" was a promise, takes a lot of sick leave, currently on some kind of leave, no code to submit because a project is not yet at the coding stage, etc. Code review sounds like a good cover for firing SWEs.
- runarberg 4y ago
  I guess you’re spot on: https://twitter.com/nabokov7/status/1595671974616997888 https://twitter.com/nabokov7/status/1595671974616997888
kodyo 4y ago
- dymk 4y ago
  Seems reasonable to tell someone to not spend their time being cruel to their (ex)employees.
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by TillE 4y ago

cmsj 4y ago

Imagine being him and sitting in his little billionaire playpen and having the choice of playing with the car thing, the space rocket thing, or the website thing and picking option 3. Literal space rockets. You couldn't tear me away from Starbase Texas.

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hw 4y ago
If you were him, would you not focus your time on making sure what you just bought will become even more successful and be what you envisioned it to be when you bought it? Of course, one might argue against buying Twitter in the first place, but that’s done. What makes you think that SpaceX and Tesla aren’t already in good hands?
- dsr_ 4y ago
  SpaceX and Tesla are in much better hands right now, since Musk's attention is on Twitter.
ssnistfajen 4y ago
He did just spend $44 billion to acquire "the website thing", most of which were leveraged loans using his wealth as collateral. So some heightened attention is a given, just not this type of micromanagement when it's clearly wreaking havoc in the foreseeable short term.

ergocoder 4y ago

bizarre is the right word. Musk's actions are so bizarre and inefficient. He could have used perf review...

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jstummbillig 4y ago

Consider he probably considered whether it's worth his time and arrived at a different conclusion. Giving his track record that's at the very least interesting.

prirun 4y ago

My guess is it doesn't have much to do with code reviews and more to do with firing people for other reasons that are not legally allowed: older workers, wants to work remotely, HAS to work remotely because they moved assuming "remote forever" was a promise, takes a lot of sick leave, currently on some kind of leave, no code to submit because a project is not yet at the coding stage, etc. Code review sounds like a good cover for firing SWEs.

runarberg 4y ago
I guess you’re spot on: https://twitter.com/nabokov7/status/1595671974616997888 https://twitter.com/nabokov7/status/1595671974616997888

kodyo 4y ago

dymk 4y ago
Seems reasonable to tell someone to not spend their time being cruel to their (ex)employees.

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