Musk claims there was a DDOS attack on X — but The Verge is told there was not.

  • eyjohn@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    45
    ·
    4 months ago

    That’s what happens when the first thing you do is fire all the Site Reliability Engineers… Apparently he stack-ranked engineers based on most lines of code (SREs generally write less code and even often delete code) and fired the lower end of that scale.

      • devfuuu@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        4 months ago

        It’s always those that are well appreciated in the corporate bullshit hamster wheel.

      • EnderMB@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        4 months ago

        I hear that an intern accidentally committed their node_modules folder, and now they’re a staff engineer responsible for the live video streaming service. What a career trajectory! 🚀

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        4 months ago

        No, those actually finish code.

        The ones who will write everything by hand.

    • EnderMB@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      4 months ago

      While it’s not LOC, you would be amazed at how many companies stack rank on stuff like number of PR’s, how many revisions are needed to merge, size of changes, etc. I’m not talking about small companies either - FAANG companies, and not just one.