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Tesla has no problem hiring industry veterans. If you spend a bit of time on Linkedin you'll find that many Tesla executives have spent 5-10 years at other car

by kjksf 9y ago

Tesla has no problem hiring industry veterans. If you spend a bit of time on Linkedin you'll find that many Tesla executives have spent 5-10 years at other car manufacterers. To give you a start: a guy in charge Tesla semi spent 8 years at Daimler (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeromeguillen/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeromeguillen/) A guy in charge in Tesla's Fremont factory (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilbert-passin-74a36117/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilbert-passin-74a36117/) spent 17 years at Renault, Mack Trucks, Volvo and Toyota. Given how rapidly is Tesla's stock rising I'm sure they are pretty attractive employer especially compared to the likes of convicted criminal organizations like Volkswagen.

user5994461 9y ago
Executives are the easiest people to identify and to hire. You select them from your major competitors and you throw a bunch of money at them. It's easier done than said. Then you're gonna need hundreds of people to design and manufacture the cars, in specific locations. These positions are a lot harder to fill. A general is useless without his army. An executive is useless without employees.
- simion314 9y ago
  Say you need some air filters for a new Tesla model, you do not need to make them inside Tesla, usually you make some requirements then show them to a few companies that make air filters, this companies will respond with a design and with an offer and you chose the company you want to make the air filters for you. So you could source most of the parts that are not Tesla specific, then the problem is managing the efficient transport of this parts, storing them, and the hard problem of assembling them, for this problems you will have to hire people with experience to setup this processes, build the assembly lines, handle QA, unfortunately for Tesla they can't be cheep with the experienced workers(even here in Romania experienced engineers are expensive and if you do not pay them enough they leave because they get offers all the time from the competitors)
oblio 9y ago
Criminal organization? Just like Microsoft, Ford, Google, Apple, Goldman Sachs and most Fortune 500 companies? Also, Volkwagen is the #1 car company in the world, I think they’ll manage to hire top execs with their €11 billion profit. I don’t like Volkswagen that much, but your perspective is kind of skewed by the Musk Distortion Field, in my opinion :)

by kjksf 9y ago

user5994461 9y ago

Executives are the easiest people to identify and to hire. You select them from your major competitors and you throw a bunch of money at them. It's easier done than said. Then you're gonna need hundreds of people to design and manufacture the cars, in specific locations. These positions are a lot harder to fill. A general is useless without his army. An executive is useless without employees.

simion314 9y ago
Say you need some air filters for a new Tesla model, you do not need to make them inside Tesla, usually you make some requirements then show them to a few companies that make air filters, this companies will respond with a design and with an offer and you chose the company you want to make the air filters for you. So you could source most of the parts that are not Tesla specific, then the problem is managing the efficient transport of this parts, storing them, and the hard problem of assembling them, for this problems you will have to hire people with experience to setup this processes, build the assembly lines, handle QA, unfortunately for Tesla they can't be cheep with the experienced workers(even here in Romania experienced engineers are expensive and if you do not pay them enough they leave because they get offers all the time from the competitors)

oblio 9y ago

Criminal organization? Just like Microsoft, Ford, Google, Apple, Goldman Sachs and most Fortune 500 companies? Also, Volkwagen is the #1 car company in the world, I think they’ll manage to hire top execs with their €11 billion profit. I don’t like Volkswagen that much, but your perspective is kind of skewed by the Musk Distortion Field, in my opinion :)