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This section on meetings is something that actually makes me want to apply at TESLA. >Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get
by ghostbrainalpha 9y ago
This section on meetings is something that actually makes me want to apply at TESLA.
>Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time. Please get of all large meetings, unless you’re certain they are providing value to the whole audience, in which case keep them very short.
>Also get rid of frequent meetings, unless you are dealing with an extremely urgent matter. Meeting frequency should drop rapidly once the urgent matter is resolved.
>Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value. It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.
- SilasX 9y agoYour section with long monotype lines, which makes you have to scroll right to read it, makes we want to plead with HN commenters to stop doing it. Please, do quotes with >, it reads fine that way.
- ghostbrainalpha 9y agoYou are right. I have edited the comment to be easier to read.
- SilasX 9y agoThank you, and apologies if I was too bitter with my tone.
- praneshp 9y agoThat's an incredibly stupid reason to want to apply somewhere. Marissa used to send out emails with a variation of that content once in three months, and business went on as usual 2 levels and more below her.
- ghostbrainalpha 9y agoHey man, that' pretty aggro. I agree it would be a silly reason to apply to someplace solely because they didn't have meetings. I also agree that just because the CEO says it doesn't mean the company can do it. But I still don't like the social convention that its people think its rude to leave a meeting when you have nothing left to contribute. I think any effort to change that could have a positive effect on workplace productivity and moral.
- praneshp 9y agoSorry if what I said offended you! > I think any effort to change that could have a positive effect on workplace productivity and moral. Of course. But in most big companies, that's just CEO speak, business goes on as usual 2 days later. Musk already has a cult of personality, this type of email makes it sound even more like it'd be a good place to work (which it might be, but not because of the line you quoted).
- troncjb 9y agoThis is the game they talk at every single company in the bay area bar none. The meetings will still happen it's just posturing.