This seems suspect. Without more confirmation, I’d hold off on believing this narrative in its entirety
> Amid layoff fears, some Twitter employees were instructed to print out copies of the code they had written recently as possible proof of work, said two people with knowledge of the situation.
Perhaps the two people don’t have knowledge of the situation.
How about the photo of the Twitter engineer holding her printed source code?
I also saw tweets from other Twitter engineers talking about printing out their code.
I’d like to see Twitter fire the cottage industry of professional non-contributors that has seeped into tech for the pay.
Employees like the TikToking “Facebook PM” who showed off 20 mins of emailing for work and the rest of the day brunching/lunching with their crew need to go.
I’ve worked for orgs where engineer head count alone pushed 250 people. The number of people in power with no technical skills managing technical workers was a huge waste of time.
Why not troll the public and traditional media who are far more obsessed with office life than doing real things for others?
Why bother taking the article seriously? It’s unverifiable. I see no reason to give it a sincere discussion.
Of course the best way to get it to run smoothly is have people show their work with printouts to prove that they shouldn’t be fired.