Dubai Billionaire's Tech Startup Takes on Amazon

Re:Dubai Billionaire's Tech Startup Takes on Amazon by adventured on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @12:14AM (#16050030)

No, not really. Tesla + SpaceX have ~25,000 employees. While Musk is without a doubt a hard charger, always pushing his employees, it's a pretty big leap to suggest those 25,000 employees are all working 80 hours per week, sleeping under their desks, and can't walk their dogs in the afternoon.

Here's the actual reality: 99% of those 25,000 employees are on normal work schedules, with normal work expectations. There are no organizations of that scale in the US where the employees all work crazy hours and sleep under their desks; quite the opposite, organizations that large always drift toward the middle by necessity (they can't attract tens of thousands of workers in a highly competitive labor market otherwise).

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Re:Dubai Billionaire's Tech Startup Takes on Amazon by dbcurtis on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @12:25AM (#16050056)

Do you actually know any Tesla employees personally? Because I know one ex-Tesla and two current Tesla employees. Tesla sounds like a burn-out factory once you have a deep conversation about the reality of working there.

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Re:Dubai Billionaire's Tech Startup Takes on Amazon by bornonline1 on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @05:39AM (#16051112)

Factories in general aren't known as a great workplaces. A great factory is barely 'ok place to work there'. Everyone knows that they are stuck in their salary bracket, you don't have the energy to educate yourself for a better job, competition between promotions is high and even if you become a line manager , you still have all the problems.

I worked in a factory. It's almost impossible to build a large factory with great work environment.

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Re:Dubai Billionaire's Tech Startup Takes on Amazon by gaius on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @04:59AM (#16050970)

There are no organizations of that scale in the US where the employees all work crazy hours and sleep under their desk

The US Navy expects officers at sea to only sleep about 5 hours a day. This is implicated in at least 3 incidents of warship collisions.

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Re:Dubai Billionaire's Tech Startup Takes on Amazon by neotriple on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @09:23AM (#16051946)

I have no clue where you're getting your information from. But as an ex SpaceX'er with friends still working there and friends at Tesla, they absolutely work at least 70-80 hours a week. This is not an 'anomaly', but the norm. In addition, the expectations are incredibly high.

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