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Well to be honest, Musk and his team looked at quantity/quality of code produced in the last 60 days, with hopefully a 10 minute chance to defend their lack of quantity/quality.

Lots of coasters in big companies can get with good rating just be being on the good side of manager/peers and even get Bonus points if you are vocal about DEI and activism.

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If some random group of people who don't know me, don't know my labor or my legacy at an organization, don't know my technical abilities, etc. fired me based off the quantity (and subjective quality) of code I produced in the last 60 days, even with 10 minutes to defend myself, I would be spitting mad at the disrespect and dehumanization. Particularly if I know I was being fired days before a stock refresh.

No, this is pissing on people and claiming it's raining.

That's fine. Elon doesn't want you to work for him.

There are people who build multiple successful companies and then there are who prioritize well-being and pick some weird hill to die on.

What's his code volume in the past 60 days?

Elon is not a software engineer. He also has created nearly $1.5 Trillion of Market Value if you are looking for numbers.

He had them print off their last 30-60 days of git commits and called himself a "hardcore coder" in DM's with Parag I really doubt he's qualified to comment on the existing infrastructure behind Twitter.

He's a really good marketer, a good businessman but I do not think he knows what he is doing when he requests access to the codebase behind a massively distributed and scalable system such as Twitters backend

Then you don't understand Elon and making the same mistake of evaluating him superficially.

People like Walter Isaacson have a better opinion about him

You'd think he'd have sacked Tesla's self-driving unit's employees several times over if this was the case.

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