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SpaceX crew dragon is done way faster, safer, and cheaper than Boeing. They develop innovative rockets like Falcon and Starship cheaper and faster than ULA. All the while, they pay less than big tech, work long hours, and don’t have benefits like free food. Blue Origin has way more money, was founded earlier, and also talented employees. Amazon, facebook have talented employees, and pay more, but they’re still WAY behind SpaceX for satellite internet. Why SpaceX so good? 🚀#tech #spacex #elon #elonmusk #musk
Working for a demigod makes you motivated.
Nope
It’s all of them above
Cause they have employees that are alive and breathing. The other places you mentioned have employees who are coasting and are basically on life support, maybe they were excited when they joined decades ago, but the vibe at those places is long gone. There’s nothing more important to a company’s success than how much its’ people believe in the company. No one believes in Boeing. Everyone who joins SpaceX believes in it and believes what they’re doing is good for humanity.
What about Blue Origin, Facebook, and Amazon who also have motivated, smart employees? But SpaceX and Starlink are still beating them
Those companies don’t have motivated employees, they work out of fear to avoid pip, and they do not give a f about long term success about the company, resulting in shitty code that is hard to maintain
SpaceX is the #1 most desirable employer in the country for college graduates because they do cool things. Tons of graduates with passion in space want to work for them. Young kids don't care about money or they consider 100k is a lot, and willing to give it all for the cause, until they got brun out and leave for better WLB gigs.
Massive exploitation of renewable resources - fresh grads and people willing for free
Fresh grads are very talented and always needed for fresh perspective. But I really believe you need experience to do bigger things. How are these companies doing so well when lots of employees are churning.
The reason NASA was successful in generations past is that the government inspired the nation towards a worthwhile goal and attracted some of the most talented people of their generation in mathematics, engineering, design, communications, and other disciplines. Elon has done something comparable for SpaceX.
Large defense companies tend to be very beauracratic and anti-innovation (if it ain't broke don't fix it). They code in outdated languages, don't work a second over 40hrs a week, etc. If someone brought up the idea of landing stage 1 rockets for reuse at Boeing I doubt anyone would've taken it seriously. This is the mentality that exists at large defense companies - the way to advance in them is through connections with the right people to bring in govt contracts. There is much less emphasis on excellent engineering and innovation. I speak from experience. As for Blue Origin, I imagine they didn't attract the right talent and leadership like Elon did with SpaceX.
Their approach is more iterative and focuses on quickly developing->shipping->testing->going back to the drawing board multiple times->rinse and repeat. Behind every launch are dozens of failed launches
You can’t do that approach with rockets
"How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ
We took modern practices to a stagnant industry. Anyone could have done it and succeeded. Even Blue Origin has had some wins.
They need to learn to iterate. They got to their comfort level and stopped. If you’re comfortable, you aren’t pushing hard enough.
Their mascot is the tortoise. Slow and steady but didn't win a race. Rapid iteration is against their cautious Gradatim Ferociter motto. It's too ingrained in the culture - I don't see it happening. I don't know much about it but I heard they recruited a lot of industry vets who brought these attitudes with them. Big contrast from the SpaceX archetype of young engineers who are way underqualified to build spacecraft but go and do it anyway.
So good at Engineering? Right …. The satellites are creating a hazard of collisions in orbit. Eventually, it will create a space junkyard in orbit as well. See here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9908743/Elon-Musks-SpaceX-Starlink-satellites-responsible-HALF-close-encounters-orbit.html Stop the cult worship and being fan-boys of Musk. And his vaunted Teslas are creating autopilot navigational crashes all over the place. I witnessed one on the highway two weeks ago. Another hazard created by this sleep-deprived, so-called “Genius”.
Satellites have automatic collision avoidance and automatically orbit decay and burn up at end of satellite lifecycle causing no debris. Read the article again, there were NO collisions and the close calls were HALF a mile away to EXISTING space debris. Typical FUD article targeted to those who outside of aerospace. Nobody said autopilot is perfect, but its the best thing out there by miles thats actually implemented on mass scale. I’d recommend you stop looking at the small details and look at the large picture wins of successfully sending US astronauts back into space, providing connectivity to areas that didnt have it before, and successfully deploying the most full BEV electric vehicles on the road of any manufacturer.
Tell the nut job on the top to get some sleep. Glorifying a 100 hour work week to be successful is nuts. It is easier to work long hours when you can afford 8 personal assistants to do your laundry, dry cleaning, food shopping, cooking, house cleaning, walking your dog, etc. The rest of us plebes need to live in the real world down here on earth.
This poll sucks
why?
It's biased