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> the best engineers want to build sexy new things and they don't want to live in Detroit. I don't believe that is always true.
by HumblyTossed 3y ago
> the best engineers want to build sexy new things and they don't want to live in Detroit.
I don't believe that is always true.
- karaterobot 3y agoYeah, that's a pretty poor analysis across the board. That great engineers require a sexy thing to work on is empirically false, that engineers won't move to Detroit is historically false, that there is some small cadre of engineers you must monopolize in order to make electric vehicles shows a deep misunderstanding.
- vineyardlabs 3y agoAgreed on both counts. I think I'm a great engineer (not so sure about "best") but my family/community are the most important things in my life and I would not sacrifice that to work on something sexy and new. Additionally, having spent a little bit of time in the suburbs of Detroit (Auburn Hills and Dearborn mostly) I found the area to be absolutely gorgeous and filled with things to do (again probably more for folks with families). Granted this was in Spring. I hear the winters are tough.
- keiferski 3y agoIt’s kinda far from Detroit but I thought Ann Arbor was one of the nicest college towns I’ve ever been to.
- hermanradtke 3y agoAlso, vehicle R&D happens all over the world. Does the OP think GM or Toyota have a single R&D office in Detroit?
- dtnewman 3y agoOP here. You can disagree with my conclusions, but yes, Toyota's North American R&D Headquarters are near Detroit (in Ann Arbor) [1] and GM's research headquarters are in Warren, MI, a suburb of Detroit. [1] https://www.toyota.com/usa/careers/research-development https://www.toyota.com/usa/careers/research-development [2] https://phmsociety.org/partner_profile/general-motors-global-rd/ https://phmsociety.org/partner_profile/general-motors-global...