He certainly let you know where he stands. If he can staff Tesla with people willing, fine by me. At one point in time i thought it would be cool to work at SpaceX. Then i heard of the grueling environment and changed my opinion.
Yeah, certainly looking for a certain type of worker 
I’m not going to pretend I know a lot about Aerospace engineering, but I doubt that people have a lot of the necessary equipment at home. I was an engineering student for a while in college though. There’s quite a bit of difference between what we do working in Excel, SQL, etc and likely what goes into building rockets. Much more hands on, I imagine.
I believe he said this in an internal e-mail to the senior office workers at Tesla
easy to find replacements. Lotsa boneheads are creaming to work at tesla
They under pay for the industry and have a loyalty screening before hiring. Putting fanboy status before capability does not bode well for the company.
Neither does a side acquisition of Twitter but I think Elon is basically YOLOing at this point
some fanboys might be capable
That’s a thing? Yeah, no. F that.
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yup, that just screams abuse
Link to loyalty screening?
Recent unionization media discussions have Musk claiming we would lose workers if we didn’t pay enough in today’s employee market. A 2017 article shows a table that has higher HC benefits and higher cash comp at Big 3 offset by equity award gains. Of course, no equity awards or gains are guaranteed.
Part of me thinks these misleading messages on the capabilities of self driving cars should be treated the same as if the ceo had misrepresented the efficacy of a medical drug or procedure. In other words, it’s negligence and fraud instead of “puffery.”
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There is absolutely no part of me that doesn’t think that. The word autopilot has a pretty clear meaning, and Tesla’s “autopilot” feature was not at all that.
How would we treat an automaker who had a button labeled “emergency brake” that actually boosted acceleration? Would it matter that the owner’s manual explained what the “emergency brake” button is for?
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Tangent: i think that emergency brake “buttons” are not adequate in an emergency involving a complete shutdown of electronics.
:head shake: Clearly you didn’t read the owner’s manual that explains that the button labeled “emergency brake” is to be used when you want a sudden burst of acceleration.
If you need to stop quickly you’ll want to pull the lever marked “go faster”.
Well, don’t blame me when you crash!!!
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OR if you’re trying to drift.
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The term autopilot wrt to cars is horribly misleading and should be banned from tesla marketing. Of course, the term itself is stupid, since autopilot doesn’t make a plane stop at stop signs.
No, but it does allow, while the plane is moving, the pilot to read a book or shave / apply makeup or post on GoA or take their shoes off or any number of other things that you ought not do while your Tesla is on “autopilot”.
Well, if the car were on a highway where an external authority kept all other traffic separated by long distances and it didn’t need to do much else, yeah, i bet the driver could safely shave. Heck, i bet autopilot in the Airplane! era didn’t even make preplanned turns. That would be interesting to research, history of autopilot.