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Twitter (with Dick Costolo)

Acquired

CHAPTER

Recruiting People From Google

CNN's John Sutter talks about his time working at Twitter. He says the company had a horrible reputation for hiring good engineers. The site was built on ruby, so moving off of it took forever and there were quarters where we couldn't do any new product work. One engineer rode a back fake pad from the ey pad into the data basin to write a tweet that caused an outage.

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