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And you would be wrong. Any half decent mech/electrical/aero engineer begs to get a role at SpaceX / Tesla.
by tekla 2y ago
And you would be wrong. Any half decent mech/electrical/aero engineer begs to get a role at SpaceX / Tesla.
- alephnerd 2y agoFor MechE, AE, and parts of EE you are not wrong - they definitely paid well above market rate because of the stock, but plenty of companies like Toyota, Ford, GM, etc began recognizing this and have begun raising salaries around the 2020-23 period while Tesla's remained stagnant, and we'll probably see the result in the next 5-7 years as these are lagging indicators.
- HumblyTossed 2y ago> And you would be wrong. Any half decent mech/electrical/aero engineer begs to get a role at SpaceX / Tesla. Oh come on. Anyone talented doesn't have to beg for anything, and certainly not a role at a falling company.
- tekla 2y agoAh yes, the HN bubble. The role at these companies are hell to get into, its not a 3 month bootcamp role. Web Dev being hilariously easy to get into was a function of free money.
- HumblyTossed 2y agoWoooooooooosh. I wasn't saying a web dev could. Context is key.
- tekla 2y ago"Woooooooooosh" Still not responding to the argument.
- HumblyTossed 2y agoOh, I did. "Context is key".
- tekla 2y agoOk, "Context is key".
- alephnerd 2y agoFor most of the 2000s and 2010s, salaries were fairly low in the automotive and aerospace industry compared to software or pure hardware, so Tesla and SpaceX absolutely paid miles above competitors, but that's changing in the 2020s now that there's more money in both spaces.
- HumblyTossed 2y agoThe comment I was replying to wasn't talking about the past.
- alephnerd 2y agoThe salary dynamics for those industries changed only recently (last 2-3 years).