<story><title>Twitter has fired more software engineers</title><url>https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1595684664228052992</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saiya-jin</author><text></text></item><item><author>gttalbot</author><text>Also, firing people on parental leave, and firing people on H1B who have 60d to get a job or leave the country.</text></item><item><author>prepend</author><text>I’m curious about “not satisfactory” standards and how they are evaluated. I’ve met many earnest engineers and architects who were trying to do good and ended up making stuff worse by creating conformant code that still sucked.&lt;p&gt;I’ve met many more “witch-hunt” reviews that were just a reason to thin the company to please VC or shareholders.&lt;p&gt;The article&amp;#x2F;tweet doesn’t mention it, but I assume they have the same severance package of a few months as the rest. If so, it could be a lot worse</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steve_adams_86</author><text>I’m on the spectrum and I have both family and friends on the spectrum. None of them would want to fire thousands of people on a whim. That’s not what being on the spectrum is like. Uncaring is not an apt word at all, and it would be just as surprising for someone on the spectrum to be truly uncaring as any neurotypical person.&lt;p&gt;They might seem uncaring in fleeting moments due to communication breakdown. They might not understand other peoples’ needs at all times. That’s far, far different from executing on the unemployment of thousands as though they are just crumpled up balls of cash to throw in the waste bin. Not remotely comparable.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter has fired more software engineers</title><url>https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1595684664228052992</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saiya-jin</author><text></text></item><item><author>gttalbot</author><text>Also, firing people on parental leave, and firing people on H1B who have 60d to get a job or leave the country.</text></item><item><author>prepend</author><text>I’m curious about “not satisfactory” standards and how they are evaluated. I’ve met many earnest engineers and architects who were trying to do good and ended up making stuff worse by creating conformant code that still sucked.&lt;p&gt;I’ve met many more “witch-hunt” reviews that were just a reason to thin the company to please VC or shareholders.&lt;p&gt;The article&amp;#x2F;tweet doesn’t mention it, but I assume they have the same severance package of a few months as the rest. If so, it could be a lot worse</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joxel</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m on the spectrum and I&amp;#x27;m not a piece of shit to my employees. Being on the spectrum does not automatically make someone an asshole. That is personal failure of Musk.</text></comment>