> Twitter does not have separate development, test, staging, and production environments.<p>It's legitimately difficult to imagine <i>any</i> software architecture running smoothly like this, <i>much less</i> a highly successful product with hundreds of engineers working on it...<p>It's necessarily criminal, but it seems everyone's suspicions about Twitter's codebase is being proven right in media res.
> Disengaged
CEO:
CEO
Jack Dorsey
had
recruited
Mudge
personally.
They
got
along
well,
and
Mudge
has
never
suspected Dorsey
of
harboring
bad
intent.
But
Dorsey, the
high-profile
CEO
of
one
of
the
most
prominent
companies
on
earth,
was
experiencing
a
drastic loss
of
focus
in
2021.
Dorsey
attended
meetings sporadically,
and
when
he
did,
he
was
extremely
disengaged.”
In
some
meetings
—even
after
he
was
briefed
on
complex
corporate
issues
—
Dorsey
did
not
speak
a
word.
Mudge
heard from
his
colleagues
that
Dorsey
would
remain
silent
for
days
or
weeks.
Worried
about
Dorsey's
health,
the senior
team
mostly
tried
to
cover
up
for
him,”
but
even
mid-
and
lower-level
staff
could
tell
that
the ship
was
rudderless