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“Reportedly, Elon stack-ranked Twitter engineers by LoC and fired the bottom X%”

by supernes on 11/4/22, 7:23 PM with 22 comments

• by Someone on 11/4/22, 7:35 PM

  https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...:

  “He […] had completely rewritten the region engine using a simpler, more general algorithm which, after some tweaking, made region operations almost six times faster. As a by-product, the rewrite also saved around 2,000 lines of code.

  He was just putting the finishing touches on the optimization when it was time to fill out the management form for the first time. When he got to the lines of code part, he thought about it for a second, and then wrote in the number: -2000“

• by supernes on 11/4/22, 7:23 PM

  ... which likely means he's gotten rid everyone who worked on particularly challenging things, like security, privacy, performance, & reliability.

  - @mcmillen

• by quantified on 11/4/22, 8:05 PM

  I'm reminded of IBM vs Microsoft when they were writing OS/2, and supposedly the fact that MS engs were reducing the LoC was aggravating to the IBM engs.

• by TheLoafOfBread on 11/4/22, 11:22 PM

  Well that's stupid. Like firing people in factory by amount of manufactured goods. First who will go will be HR, management and engineers telling line operators how to do stuff. Like sure it will work for a while, until something breaks or you will want new product...

• by sschueller on 11/4/22, 10:10 PM

  The most effective way to fire your best engineers.

  If this is true then Elon is truly not an engineer.

• by awhitehat on 11/7/22, 4:03 AM

  Reportedly, your a gullible moron for believing this.

• by buzzkill90 on 11/5/22, 6:19 PM

  I think most of us knows this is not true. Zero evidence and we known he didn't bring Tesla engineers to count lines.

• by jacooper on 11/4/22, 9:50 PM

  LoC here meaning lines of code?

• by Khelavaster on 11/4/22, 7:39 PM

  Think this was just one factor...