Facebook engineers yesterday

IIRC correctly the writers admitted that they wrote this scene because they were tired of all the criticism that their hacking scenes weren’t 100% accurate, and/or included visual elements like a GUI instead of just command lines, so they decided to have an unofficial internal contest about who could make the tech scenes more and more ridiculous, continuing to ramp it up until we got to this specific moment - the peak of bullshit mountain. 

My favourite thing about this scene is the bit afterwards that they never show you, which is the team leader solving the problem in the most actually realistic way possible - unplugging the computer before it could be hacked any further.