SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round

Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round by icc97 on Friday April 13, 2018 @04:25AM (#16828026)

Plus unfortunately Musk is fairly well known for underpaying his staff. So you have to choose to take a paycut to switch from Google / Facebook. To be fair all of Apple/Amazon/Microsoft do at least sell actual products.

Perhaps this is why Google / Facebook open source so much of what they do, so that talented engineers don't just have to say 'I get paid to make people click'.

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Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round by Denzel on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:22AM (#16828277)

Underpaying what baseline?

A recently hired software engineer at Tesla, while not giving specific figures, said that the base comp was competitive and the options were $100k+ over the standard 4-year vesting schedule. I've heard similarly from a handful of others; I'd expect the comp to be inline at SpaceX.

Not to mention the growth potential for your stock options between SpaceX and Tesla may be higher than comparable companies.

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Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round by arcticfox on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:54AM (#16828435)

This doesn't look good:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Tesla-Software-Engineer-Sal...

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Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round by icc97 on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:40AM (#16828362)

> Underpaying what baseline?

Facebook / Google

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Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round by qaq on Friday April 13, 2018 @08:59AM (#16829527)

well most companies "underpay" if baseline is FB and Google

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