Hi All SRE and SWE aspirants, please save your careers and don’t join Tesla’s SuperComputing or HPC team. Its a glorified Systems Admin role. You will end up filing tickets with DC technicians, updating excel sheets and only writing shell scripts. The manager in the team is absolutly horrible and lunatic guy who has no idea about sre and software development lifecycle. He is just an hpc systems administrator promoted to be manager. The team is also horrible. Most engineers in the team have majored in mechanical engg and some in psycology. They don’t understand jack abt swe and sre/devops in general. After graduation they couldn’t find jobs and now just doing linux systems admin work for tesla. Instead join ML/Infra or Platform SRE. Just STAY AWAY from Supercomputing/HPC. TC: 430k YOE: 9 #faang #sre #tesla #nvidia #microsoft #amazon #meta #h1b #aws #ai #machinelearning #teslamotors #salesforce #cisco #swe
I want to be paid 400k to be an excel engineer
Thats my new TC. I have got an offer from another faang
Congrats. What was tesla tc?
> The manager in the team is absolutly horrible and lunatic guy who has no idea about sre and software development lifecycle. Tesla’s CEO manages the group directly? Wow
No. Just another hpc engineer (systems admin) promoted to be a manager
You hear that? Thats the sound of the joke flying right over OPs head... 🤣
Sounds fishy. Tesla showed such cool tech during their AI day presentations. Probably one of the more advanced AI clusters out there.
SuperComputing team had nothing to do with it. Its mostly AI/ML infra, Autopilot and FSD teams. The tools and software to provision the AI clusters is built by Platform and AI/ML Infra. Supercomputing just uses them. Basically this team exists to do all the menial and undesirable work requested by Autopilot and ML infra teams. All SuperComputing does is manually administer GPU clusters and file Hardware tickets with datacenter technicians and maintain excel sheets.
Thanks for the update
Any thoughts on Tesla's robotics team OP?
Mech E running non Mech E departments at Elon company. This seems familiar.
Lucky
Looks like I doged a bullet. Heard from other friend as well that Tesla SuperComputing sucks!!
You get 430k for system admin stuff?
Thats my new TC. I have got an offer from another faang
What’s the new job? I’m an SRE and I make like half of that!