I'm interviewing for a job at Tesla. I have no idea about their compensation for now. Currently working at Apple SWE. If move, from engineer to engineer. Someone told me current Tesla is like Apple 10 years ago, meaning there will be very high chance to grow. I'd like to know what you guys think about growth opportunities at Tesla. Would it be really worth? Also I'm curious about the compensation level comparing to Apple.
Musk companies don't even pay market to engineers
Untrue
It is a privilege to work for Musk. Why are you even asking for money? Shame!
There is massive disparity between teams. There are some departments where you'll get better compensation and growth than others. Honestly, though, if you don't have massive buy in to the mission, you'll be miserable. You'll always have better compensation outside tesla - the only real reason to come is because you're a fervent believer in sustainable transportation.
Or sustainability, or making a true impact.
^ agreed. comp and growth disparity huge between teams
Look at the market cap off Tesla vs Ford. Do you really think Tesla will grow to be 10-100x bigger than Ford?
No, I think Ford will shrink to be 5-10x less than Tesla which will grow.
Right now Ford has a market cap of 49B while Tesla has 39B. I find this mind boggling as Ford ships way more cars now then Tesla will for atleast a decade. So how do investors justify the huge price difference? I think a lot just be hype. I don't think hype will push Tesla's stock up another 10x
do it if you only want to work, sleep, and breath Tesla and you already drank a bathtub of the koolaid
I've heard repeatedly that they pay below market. I had an early conversation with the recruiter but decided I don't want to commute and didn't follow up for the technical discussion. What I'm curious about is what's the culture and if you can grow as a good engineer without having to do shit politics.
Had a friend who got an offer for a non-tech role. He said the base was 10k below his salary at Apple and total comp wasn't willing to make up the difference. Sounds like they expect people to REALLY want to work @ Tesla.
Do you get discount for p100d?
Would love to hear this too. Tesla got the big gun Chris Lattner from Apple recently.