DandomRude@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoLinus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for itwww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up1223arrow-down14
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minus-squarefoggy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up135·3 months agoLinus from LTT asks Linus if he’d ever heard of software developers being terminated based on how many lines of code they’d written . Linus Torvalds responds “Anyone who thinks that’s a valid metric is too stupid to work at a tech company…” It’s clear Torvalds doesn’t know who this is about when questioned. Linus hints to him it’s about Musk. “Apparently I was spot on [about Elon Musk being such and individual who is too stupid to work at a tech company].”
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoI know a CSO of a Biotech who is too stupid to be working in any biomedical research. Guy has a 30 year track record of failures, never worked on a successful drug and he just keeps getting promoted… he’s literally stupid.
Linus from LTT asks Linus if he’d ever heard of software developers being terminated based on how many lines of code they’d written .
Linus Torvalds responds “Anyone who thinks that’s a valid metric is too stupid to work at a tech company…”
It’s clear Torvalds doesn’t know who this is about when questioned.
Linus hints to him it’s about Musk.
“Apparently I was spot on [about Elon Musk being such and individual who is too stupid to work at a tech company].”
I know a CSO of a Biotech who is too stupid to be working in any biomedical research. Guy has a 30 year track record of failures, never worked on a successful drug and he just keeps getting promoted… he’s literally stupid.