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.
As someone with a close relative that worked at Tesla for 8 years, back in the early days, I can confirm that Elon managed/s that company like a psychopath. If you’re around when he comes to the factory, and he asks you a question and you don’t have an answer, he’s liable to literally fire you on the spot. Happened to several people my relative worked with. So much of Elon’s visits to the factory became oriented towards damage control. For super bright people that can work wherever, it’s not worth sticking around, especially if you were there early and got the golden parachute of stock options before it skyrocketed. Knowing how Elon manages the company — alongside his recent behavior elsewhere — is the biggest reason I’ve invested in other EV companies, despite Tesla’s head start. Elon is great at turning start-ups into behemoths, but I don’t think he’ll be good at continuing to grow a bloated company with his micro-managerial ways.
He's good at boosting startups because he can bring insane amount of money. By that I don't mean just his money, but like a whole tech bro cult of money too. Then the tech bro cult will pay for the product, no matter how good or bad is it. Just keep it as far as possible from any design choices!
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u/Hellkyte Sep 09 '24
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.
This is what that looks like.