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Musk didn’t target the guy directly. The coder chose to mouth off and keep mouthing off, in a public forum.
Any HR department worth their salt is now going to mark this guy as “problematic”. His name’s everywhere thanks to the media attention, too.
He ain’t getting a good job with a stable company. Some crummy doomed to fail startup, maybe.
and yet he has no less than 40 job offers in his feed from companies worth more than twitter LOL
Nope. You'll likely get fired if your boss is a wonderful person and you publicly insult her on social media.
Who would put up with that childish unprofessional behavior?
wasn't an insult. and like i said, im pretty sure he did expect it could happen. point is, elon comes out looking like a fool here.
Elon is a disaster and will go down as one of the biggest “could have been”. He could have been so much but instead he decided to be a bully and a weird one at that.
Make's no difference if he does or doesn't.
Act unprofessional like a petulant child insulting your boss or higher ups, expect to be fired.
tell that to TSLA shareholders (i include myself here)
The context of my post has nothing to do with Tesla shareholders; it was with respect to how the employee was treated by Musk after the employee called him out publicly - fool or no fool, any boss would have done the same thing firing the employee.
elon looking like a fool has a lot to do with TSLA shareholders
That’s everywhere there’s work at the moment and someone always at the top, **** always rolls downhill.
I read the tweet he had a hostile attitude maybe a bad day and took it out on musk then musk took his ****** day on his employee neither is perfect
Here is a list of everything Frohnhoefer said in direct response to Musk, split up into individual claims with slight paraphrasing as appropriate:
- I have spent ~6 years working on Twitter for Android
- I can confirm this [statement by Musk regarding requests required to render the Home timeline] is wrong
- We have done a bunch of work to improve performance
- Performance correlates well with increasing user active minutes (UAM) and ad spend
- Agree that there is plenty of room for performance improvements on Android
- I don't think the number of requests is the primary issue
- For a cold start there are ~20 requests to load the Home timeline
- Most of those requests are non-blocking and happen in the background (e.g., images, hashflags, user settings)
- I believe there are three reasons the app is slow:
- The app is bloated with little-used features
- We have accumulated years of technical debt as we have prioritized [development] velocity and features over performance
- We spend a lot of time waiting for network responses
- One performance focused holdback showed a causal increase of 40M user active minutes. For reference, Mixed Media only showed 10M additional user active minutes.
- If we want to improve things, we need to make tradeoffs that favor performance over new feature work.
- Frankly, we should probably prioritize some big rewrites to combat 10+ years of technical debt and make a call on deleting features aggressively.
unless this guy was in the pr department or part of ownership, publicly disseminating internal information out is going to be a bad idea no matter what it is.
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I said he likely should've handled it privately. However, the point of my post — if you cared to read it or that which I was replying to — was the claim that the guy was publicly insulting Musk, which, unless I missed something, he most definitely was not.
Thanks for the clarification. If he was so invested in the problem, he should have communicated with Musk internally/directly.
Taking it public, potentially embarrassing Musk, is just straight up unprofessional and a violation of trust. Terminating his employment was the right thing to do.
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I look forward to the next press release going back on the change; flip-flopping over user experience and corporate policy seems to be the only certainty of Musk’s stewardship.
Twitter is circling the bowl under Musk’s watch. He needs to admit his skills don’t translate to a social media company, appoint a competent CEO and get back to Tesla and SpaceX before his megalomania drags them down the drain too.
Twitter is circling the bowl under Musk’s watch. He needs to admit his skills don’t translate to a social media company, appoint a competent CEO and get back to Tesla and SpaceX before his megalomania drags them down the drain too.
It’s not a mindset. It something that he freely accepted in exchange of money. As I do.
Not sure firing him for those comments was the right thing to do, but I'm not surprised in the least. The engineer is smart enough to know that every action has a consequence and the moment he hit the send button he lost control over his future at Twitter. These days, folks need to invest in classes that teach you when and how to SHUT UP!