Product Managers at Tesla - Do you have any role in defining the features?
This post is a reaction to Mustard’s email yesterday, and specifically to Product managers. With a nasty CEO like him, I am wondering what role if any, the PMs at Tesla play in defining Product features. Are you able to push back to the leadership on what the next features should be, or are you just following orders?
Yes. You get to scroll through Elon’s twitter and decide which idea fascinates you most
Tesla's not a tech company so either you want the 4-5 PM's who work on their customer facing applications, or the probably 50 or so that work on internal tooling. Tesla is an engineering company everything is top down.
I saw a Jira ticket for a feature change. It said : A. Feature : ... B. Motivation : Elon asked for it C. Fallout : see point B There is only 1 true PM at Tesla.
Thank you for the frankness
Just so nasty. As a Tesla owner I am so happy with the X, but in the past few months there is an overwhelming question of using a product made by a man like Musk. It’s not that he asked his employees to be back at work - it’s that their is no respect. No respect for people who built his companies. No respect for anything. My next car won’t be Tesla.
Privately and publicly shaming his employees on Twitter is the problem. Most have no issue working in office if the communication is fair and timely
Exactly.