I've thought about it and he'd have to pay me ~4x what I could make at my current job, and even then I'd do it for a couple years tops then take my money and leave. My ultimate goal is to retire very early but I also don't want to sacrifice my current life/sanity/morals, so it'd take a lot of money for that side of the equation to win out
Poll: Would You Work for Elon?
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well go write Cobol at a bank. Or play office politics and write another pointless chat app that gets canceled. What is wrong with a bit of chaos from time to time? I thought this was hacker news, I thought you guys like startups..
Hahaha "startup" doesn't mean "CEO who publicly insults his own company and employees and pretends he knows better than them because he owns a different company." This is not "startup chaos", this is "narcissistic, toxic CEO" chaos. Elon's behavior is absolutely unacceptable coming from a leader. Source: I work at a demanding startup with a respectable CEO.
Dude, you wrote "chaotic management style".
Now it is because you don't like the cut of his jib. Just say what bothers you directly.
I get it, you really don't like Elon. Whereas I... truly sincerely don't care. Pay my rates you can call me every name in the book. Sticks and stones.
Twitter employees have called him all manner of things, doesn't seem like your apprehensions flow both ways. This is some kindergarten level behavior from all involved.
Don't see why any of it matters. Children are starving in India, I'm getting paid six figures to move some Jira tickets back and forth..
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#93I've worked for worse
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#94Or alternatively - I may not pursue working for him, but I've certainly made huge returns investing in his companies.
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#95I'd work for Elon 10 years ago when he was focused on things like making life multi planetary and advancing the electrification of transport. If I didn't have a family I'd work for SpaceX 10 years ago for 1/2 my current pay and pull 80 hour weeks. Elon today seems to be focusing most of his energy on political concerns that are frankly beneath him and very very stupid. Someone with his means and skills should not car…
What if freedom of discourse was more important than spaceships or electric cars or solar panels? I think it is. My guess is Elon does too.
Elon has completely failed to communicate what he means by "freedom of discourse". Judged by his actions so far it seems like it means "mostly the same as Twitter's existing policies, but you can't impersonate people and you especially can't impersonate Elon". Which seems like it's less freedom than before(?)
It honestly seems like he hasn't thought about the problem deeply enough to have a coherent vision here. We'll see, I guess.
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#96Work? Probably not, I think it's for people who are very dialed in on the mission.
Buy stock in his conpanies though? That's a very different story. If and when spaceX goes public (probably far in the future) I believe it will be the most valued stock in history.
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#97To be honest, I was a fan and explained away every offense he has made to date UNTIL he fired the Twitter Android app engineer publicly on Twitter. I felt that this engineer was engaging Elon about the problems at hand in a way that was admirable considering the circumstances. It was like the engineer knew he was falling on the sword, but at the same time was rational in his explanations of the current state of the a…
Elon publicly apologized that the android app was terrible, without naming anyone. Then this guy responded publicly calling out Elon. I don't know any CEO that would be cool with that. If Elon named him, sure, rip him apart. But Elon simply referenced the android app, and this guy took it personally in the worst way.
My read on that thread was that Elon was the one who took being corrected personally. The guy just pointed out that what Elon said about "1000 requests" was not correct nor was it the root cause of the performance issue Elon mentioned. If he had just said "sorry the Android app is slow, we're working on it", I suspect no one would have replied to him.
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#98To be honest, I was a fan and explained away every offense he has made to date UNTIL he fired the Twitter Android app engineer publicly on Twitter. I felt that this engineer was engaging Elon about the problems at hand in a way that was admirable considering the circumstances. It was like the engineer knew he was falling on the sword, but at the same time was rational in his explanations of the current state of the a…
Elon publicly apologized that the android app was terrible, without naming anyone. Then this guy responded publicly calling out Elon. I don't know any CEO that would be cool with that. If Elon named him, sure, rip him apart. But Elon simply referenced the android app, and this guy took it personally in the worst way.
If it were me, I probably wouldn't have replied. I read later this was a Staff engineer working on optimizing the android app iirc. He was more blunt than I'd be comfortable with speaking to my CEO, but Elon seems to be someone who likes to get to the point so I was kind of surprised he reacted this way.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Elon publicly apologized that the android app was terrible, without naming anyone. Then this guy responded publicly calling out Elon. I don't know any CEO that would be cool with that. If Elon named him, sure, rip him apart. But Elon simply referenced the android app, and this guy took it personally in the worst way.
My read on that thread was that Elon was the one who took being corrected personally. The guy just pointed out that what Elon said about "1000 requests" was not correct nor was it the root cause of the performance issue Elon mentioned. If he had just said "sorry the Android app is slow, we're working on it", I suspect no one would have replied to him.
Yeah it was weird that Elon dropped that technical info, I assume he's talking about requests that happen on the backend that have nothing to do with android specifically? He couldn't have really thought 1000 round trips were happening between the phone and twitter. At least I hope not.
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#100At Elon’s companies working hard is a requirement but you don’t get rewarded in return. Tesla/SpaceX pays peanuts despite Tesla’s outsized stock returns. If you believe in the mission, that’d be the only reason to join.
I have to imagine Tesla does RSUs though right? So engineers are doing great over a 5 year timeline. When I knew people at Tesla they were real fanboys of the car, which isn’t a bad thing, but if you’re trying to hire, like, ISO26262 certification experts I’d focus on paying a few experts well. The 24 year old fanboys can do the grunt work, but some well paid experts need to lead that process, and I doubt they’ll be…
I think that was true when TSLA was a gravity defying rocket ship. Not sure that's something we can rely on to happen at this point. More players are getting serious about EVs.