What's growth/learning like at Tesla as a SWE?
Feb 1, 2020
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I don't care about TC and wlb right now. What's it like at Tesla for swes in terms of complexity of work for the average engineer and the learning that happens? I don't have a PhD so outside of self driving is there cutting edge work for swes?
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Managers are overloaded, most software engineers have no idea what’s going on, there is not product management, and the business users demand features that they don’t use.
The software is of exceptionally poor quality and the technical leaders are too busy to do anything about it. There’s also nothing interesting about it unless you’re really into cars or supply chain.
My advice — skip it.
Stock was at 243 when I joined. Wouldn’t have been worth the payout for the waste of time.