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[Akuza89]

Hotz was hired in November 2022 to iron-out some issues he had with the social media company, such as the nondismissable login popup and the inaccurate search functionality. He never planned to stay at Twitter for the long haul but noted he would “put [his] money where [his] mouth is” and tough out a 12-week internship at Twitter in exchange for “cost of living in San Francisco,” where the company is headquartered. Unfortunately, Hotz didn’t even last one full month, as just a couple of days before hitting that mark, he took to Twitter to announce he quit, effective immediately.

“Resigned from Twitter today,” Hotz tweeted on December 20. “ appreciate the opportunity, but didn’t think there was any real impact I could make [at the social media company]. Besides, it was sad to see my GitHub withering. Back to coding!”

So either he thinks it's a sinking ship, or he has no idea what to do...
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[Jennings]

I wonder if any other random people quit jobs recently.

 

[March Climber]

So either he thinks it's a sinking ship, or he has no idea what to do...

Or there was literally nothing there for him to do.

 

[sankt-Antonio]

Or there was literally nothing there for him to do.

As far as I understood the situation, Twitter runs off a certain language he’s not familiar with. Apparently he did some streams where we tried to learn the language but you can guess how much of an impact a single guy can have who isn’t really familiar with the tools needed.

 

[BadBurger]

I shared in a past thread that I have a friend who used to work at Twitter. Up until recently. What a lot of people don't realize is they largely designed their own infrastructure. Aside from OS's, top to bottom. Around 2010 they decided they didn't want to do what most other companies do and seek out a cloud provider like Azure or AWS and then just build on top of that. They of course still have some assets in other platform holders, but it's mostly for minor things.

So it is no surprise that some hot shot programmer thought he could just barge in and "fix things". It's way, way more complicated than some simple IT maintenance job. And he learned it the hard way.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

He quit 4 days ago and we're discussing over in the dedicated thread.

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/elon-musk-likely-to-step-down-from-twitter-no-politics.1648115/