New Twitter owner Elon Musk is bringing engineers from his other businesses to work on the social network. Tesla engineers have little experience designing for social media and use a different programming language, CNBC reported.
, with current Twitter employees telling CNBC that, to complete Musk's review deadlines, they are pulling 12-hour shifts, seven days a week with no communication surrounding their compensation or job security.
Twitter, which runs using publicly-facing publishing and search engine functions, is developed in code written in Scala, a concise 18-year-old programming language, compared to Python, a 31-year-old programming language that Tesla engineers are currently using.the company's engineers would struggle to accurately assess existing code on the social platform, which runs using large-scale distributed systems that are outside their specialty.
The"idea of Elon being flanked by his Tesla engineers reviewing Twitter code is laughable," the source, who was not authorized to discuss the topics on behalf of the company and spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation,
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