my anecdote, i dealt with 2 managers, 2 tech leads, an architect type person that would jump in randomly, the skip level that would jump in, plus if i got embedded on a project, i had more leads, a pm, more managers to deal with. when i first started at twitter i was 3 people removed from jack, when i left, i couldn't even tell you what the chain was anymore.
to the second point, i dont think i had a single good manager the entire time, i had a lot. the only one that wasnt terrible was the one that phoned it in and didn't bother me and just let me work. i never reached out to a manager there for technical advice.
I hope people get a chance to watched the video if/when(already?) is leaked. It was embarrassing for him. That was so weird, he is incompetent. He has no ability to explain himself or share his thoughts in a way that makes any sense. Showing up 10minutes late to start with a weird 15min ramble... how is that a good idea?
i don't really have an incentive to do that, i just wanted to comment on how inaccurate this was written and share a thought about our "news" based off my knowledge. The author shouldn't have written this if they don't understand what they're writing about. Or cant verify their leaked information.
Probably most news is misinformed if you think about.
The only question is raises is how incompetent is this journalist. the source code is locked. It's not everyone is committing stuff...
What I'm learning from this how little anyone posting shit on the internet actually knows. Misinformation from incompetence or just trying to be a know it all everywhere.
its almost like its a place where people can interact directly.
thanks for calling out scale and engineering problems btw! sometimes i think people think we're sitting around all day throwing darts at a wall of pictures of conservatives to pick who to ban next.
yeah these companies act like were all protecting the coca cola formula or building nukes or something. like really, its blocks of text being put in order. the hr, pr, comms, leaders or w/e seem so disconnected. im sure there is some bs reason like were protecting the company, i think its misguided being so closed off though and missing the bigger picture of building trust with users.
still speculation without being an employee (even if it did some research from blogs which seems to be more then most do) twitter should just write their own post and shut everyone up already. idk why the company is so secretive about everything. its clearly not doing them any favors
I don't think you can make a judgement about a company. I think its really about the team and manager.
My first team at twitter was horrible, from the team members to managers, toxic and stressful. I was stuck doing after hours work, and oncall was miserable with constant off hours pages and no one had desire to do something about it.It was terrible for my mental health. I couldn't wait to leave. I switched teams and it was like joining a new company, unbelievable. People respected my opinion, no one was an asshole, everyone was polite and friendly. There's constant stupid shit going on with the directors and vps, doing reorgs or w/e trying to justify their existence i guess but none of that effects me. Plenty of of coworkers and friends at work have had similar experience. Some teams are truly hellish nightmares and some are great.
I thought the kernel was pretty stable. My first team at twitter I think we ran into 2 or 3 kernel bugs that year. I couldn't believe it but for some problems the blaming the kernel is a real debugging step (and even the bios lol). I think I had two perf problems turn into upstream patches thanks to the kernel team.