Ask HN: Would You Work for Elon?

It's crazy to me that our profession fights unionization despite repeated, predictable and consistent anti-worker, antisocial, narcissistic, ego driven companies that grind us up and spit us out

Giving someone unvested RSUs with no voting rights, in third class stock isn't meaningful.

Being employee 10 of $tartup doesn't matter anymore, because the company raised their D round in a down round which wiped out every Angel Investor and any common stock holders. Luckily the new Saudi backed VC fund that did the round is going to make sure that the CEO is doing their "most important job" of serving the Board and protecting investors over the expendable employees

The capital class couldn't care less about you the person writing code or managing a team or building pipelines or maintaining dbs.

Am I the only one that remembers Office Space?

You state that he is gaslighting as if it is a fact. I'm no Elon Stan. What I see is someone walking into an incredibly disorganized organization and creating the necessary chaos needed to shake out the entrenched grifters and groupthink. He may very well fail, but it's a breath of fresh air to see someone shaking up the status quo in a very public manner.

And if he measures that by "number of lines of code written", do believe that is an accurate measure of how good a programmer is at what they do?

I also understand why someone might not want to work for Elon. Work isn't everything and if you want to prioritize family/hobbies over work, there's nothing wrong with it.