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Did Elon Musk fire 3,250 Twitter employees by LOC count?

Thomas Hansen on November 06, 2022

I don’t know if it’s true, but apparently Elon did a LOC count. Implying he counted lines of code contributed by employees over the last year, and ...
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Rolf Streefkerk

It's amazing how much scrutiny this all gets, are we asking Google or other tech companies how they do the hiring and firing?
I believe we're applying a magnifying glass on this whole debate a bit too much.
Elon bought it, it's his show now.

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Thomas Hansen

He is brilliant, everybody knows, everybody wants to know what he does - Quite simple ...

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Thomas Werner

Google was not acquired by an eccentric billionaire who criticized Google all the time and questioned the competence and intelligence of the people who work there.

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Rolf Streefkerk

The point is, we don't have the facts of the situation to assess anything that's going on at Twitter.
Everything you read online are OpEd's, they have a story to tell you and that doesn't mean it's the truth.

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Thomas Werner

No, the point is you were comparing apples to oranges. What happed to Twitter is extraordinary and extremely worrying.

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Rolf Streefkerk

I determine the content of my own message, you can disagree with it, that's fine.

I do not share your view for the reasons I've outlined in my previous response. The narrative around Twitter is being driven by OpEd's and not by the facts.

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Thomas Hansen

Half the world questioned the intelligence (and sanity) of most of the people who worked at Twitter. As far as I'm concerned, purchasing Twitter was an act of compassion, saving them from themselves ... :/

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Thomas Werner

I seriously doubt that.

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Thomas Hansen

Losing 4 million dollars per day might be OK for a startup in an extreme business, or a new innovative idea. It is NOT OK for a 15 year old business plan and company.

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Dom | Five.Co

Funny, I thought the same thing when I read about this. Though the article I read only mentioned that they brough in developers from Tesla to do a code review at Twitter. See here: businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesl...

In any case: sounds like more of a roughshod approach to figuring out who to keep and who to fire.

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Thomas Hansen

Well, if there's no code to review, the answer gives itself, assuming your job is to create code - But yes, I would assume the LOC is only intended as a "baseline figure", for then to analyse those with low count ...

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Thomas Hansen

Funny read :)