Rivian hires or has hired a lot of people from its direct competitors like Tesla. In fact, in 2020, Musk had claimed that Rivian is stealing its trade secrets by poaching its employees. Is it ethical to hire people en mass from competitors? Is it common across other industries? #tech #rivianautomotive
It’s a free market
Uhm, employees from your competitors are the ones with the required skill set no? As long as they don’t breach any NDAs, it’s fine.
Read into Tesla's lawsuit against Rivian. They were directing employees to bring over confidential information to Rivian.
Well what do you think gcp is doing ? Getting folks from cloud competitors. In fact ceo of Google cloud is from oci. Isn't he going to use his experience at oci ? Many PMs are from azure and aws
They pay peanuts 🥜 less than Msft
The industry is new and small. If you want an industry expert, who else will you hire from? Rivian will have to 1) train its workforce internally, and 2) hire from competitors. This is how all industries work.
EV industry is new and small. Pull battery experts, sure. But the auto industry is old and huge. Not sure it's to Rivian's benefit to pull mech engineers, manufacturing engineers, etc. from Tesla or other EV startups. But yes, that's just how it works in industries. The talent tends to rotate through the major players in a field. For driveline that I was doing...GKN, BorgWarner, Magna, American Axle, ZF. People come and go between them regularly.
Yes, it’s pretty common practice and for employees, jumping to the competitor is the easiest way to increase your TC significantly. This is also why, some employees, depends on the states/province make you sign non compete upon hired.
Capitalism
Electric car manufacturers are a small club. Tesla being the biggest player does have employees that have worked in the domain the longest. Is it ethical? Rivian is a really small player. Rivian is basically helping Tesla because any electric pickup truck is free advertisement for cybertruck
Rivian is slimy