If you read Eric Burger's fantastic book about the early days of SpaceX, there are some great anecdotes from engineers and what it was like working with Elon.

If you read Eric Burger's fantastic book about the early days of SpaceX, there are some great anecdotes from engineers and what it was like working with Elon. Many of them came from Boeing or Lockheed, and they talk about how getting approval for a new piece of equipment or new manufacturing tech would take 12 months, then budgeting, then whatever and you might have the thing in 2 years if you were lucky. With Elon, you go into his office and lay out your ask. He will ask one or two directed questions, they say "yes, do it" and pull out the check book then and there, and you can spend millions and get something new in weeks. Even when it doesn't work out down the road, Elon will ask if you learned something and if you're now on the right track, and if the answer is yes, Elon says "You did the right thing". So it sounds like he removes a ton of barriers, and I'd love to work for someone like that.