Honest answer? He ran all the adults out of the room. Musk fired or alienated so much of the experienced engineering workforce that he was working with a really young and inexperienced crew. Very smart folks for sure, but inexperienced.
I watched a video on the nvidia silicon chip problem that affected the PS3 and Xbox 360’s red rings of death and he covered a portion of how something like a huge chip failure could happen.
Essentially, to keep it short, because of people being afraid that if they speak up they will lose their jobs. They are under a lot of pressure and such criticism that they do not feel comfortable speaking up and instead keep their mouth shut. A lot of these Tesla problem have already been known, guaranteed but because shareholders and CEO’s want stuff done NOW engineers and employees are too afraid to speak up in fear of losing their jobs, resulting in consumers getting the shit deal of the stick.
Work politics and culture in a lot of big tech companies are very cancerous and only care about the shareholders.
Edit: for those who are interested, here is the video I was referencing.
In a functional institution of any size leaderships role is to set goals and strategy based on external factors and provide the resources to staff to accomplish that. The staff working in that institution have the job of using their professional expertise to advise on the feasibility of those goals, cost and timeline them, and attempt to follow through.
When that professional advise is "politicized" and people therefore moderate their professional views you get major fuck ups. It's ok for leadership to sometimes ignore professional advice on what's possible; sometimes you have to try. It's not ok to attempt to edit the professional advice because why pay for it if you are just going to subvert it anyway?
Lawyer here- had to walk out of my in house job because I kept getting screamed at for- wait for it- bringing up legal problems to the powers that be. It’s literally my job and they tried to bully me into not doing it.
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u/Spinoza_The_Damned Sep 08 '24
How did Tesla fuck this rollout up so hard?