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It’s been 3 years, which seems like a normal tenure in tech, I don’t recall seeing front page headlines every time an employee leaves another company.

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It's The Verge, they report on senior people at tech companies. They wrote about Meta's head of engineering leaving (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/8/23160405/meta-head-enginee...) and Apple replacing their head of hardware engineering (https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/25/22249393/apple-senior-vic...).

> I don’t recall seeing front page headlines every time an employee leaves another company.

I haven't seen it in quite some time either, but it has been more common during previous downturns. Presumably because everyone is trying to find signals that tech is dead to support their preconceived notions.

This kind of thing gets reported on all the time, there are dozens of similar front page stories on HN over the years. It looks like you just didn't pay attention to those.

> Wang first joined Elon Musk’s X in July 2023 and has been an integral part of the company’s leadership, often serving as a conduit between Musk and the rest of the company’s engineers. More recently, he was seen internally as X’s defacto head of engineering and product

How do you get three years from the article?

It's been like 20 months.

His LinkedIn shows he worked for Twitter for more than a year before then.

So at Twitter for about 3 years and head of eng for <20 months. Is <20 months a long tenure in such a position?

Agreed. The higher up you go the longer the expected tenure. 24 months is good for senior developers but it goes up from there.

3 years at that high of a position is a little short.

But, yeah, seems like just a nothing burger from the Verge.

director of engineering at X(twitter) that pretty long for a company that Musk nickel and dime you

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