Musk fired 7 top engineers in June
I am curious what holds people in this company. These engineers were fired upon personal disagreement with Musk over the pace of developing and testing Starlink satellites. Musk wants to rush it. I know people already work crazy hours without compensation in SpaceX. Among fired are the VP and the top designer.
Cults are like that. 🍆
To be part of a mission with a vision to actually do something awesome. At most companies, the work is basically meaningless. SpaceX or Tesla or SolarCity or Boring Co for that matter are all doing something cool. Not saying it's right for folks to overwork, but I suspect that's a large part of the mindset.
SpaceX, boring co yes. Tesla and solarcity are quite mainstream. Not much work there is unique and new. There are 100s of solar companies before.
Tesla mainstream? Which other manufacturers do over the air software updates that directly improve braking performance and range of their cars? Solar city isn't necessarily the most interesting but paired with Tesla batteries the potential is significant
TC or gtfo
Having a clear mission and contributing to something that drives the greater good is more motivating to me lately than money or title or whatever else. Wlb is also becoming more important to me now that I have children. Unfortunately neither my current employer nor spacex are great fits...any good non profits out there that pay a reasonable wage?
Gates foundation
Who got fired?
Musk and the rest of the PayPal founders have a lot of sway in tech, and are considered visionaries rightfully or not. Lots of people want to get in on the ground floor of something which might turn out to be the next Fairfield or General Magic, failure included.
He's trying to push his engineers to pump out the satellites faster than they think is reliable. This has so many implications when it comes to security and reliability. Not a good move to push through something like this.
To quote a dept manager who works with starlink, "it's a typical SpaceX scrapy kludged together mess"
It's not the first time he fires top people over personal disagreement. General opinion of people who directly report to him is that he is a despot. You either agree in everything, or you out. The overwork culture for no money is a reflection of this selfish attitude.
Sorry, what's the question here?
The first sentence