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If you're a top-tier AI researcher, why TF would you choose Tesla to work for? The shine has gone off Musk as a super-genius. All you'd be getting is an arbitra

• boshalfoshal 2y ago
  Tesla AI orgs can pay well above market for AI talent. Thats about the only reason anyone would join. If you are insensitive to work hours but want to get paid, its not the worst option.
  • acdha 2y ago
    Do they really outbid Google, Microsoft, Facebook, OpenAI, Apple, etc.? I totally believe they pay better than the average startup but those companies are spraying money around right now and their stock options have a lot more upside – Tesla’s P/E is wildly high so they’d need a phenomenal reversal in fortune to drive it enough higher for anyone to see a great return.
    • boshalfoshal 2y ago
      Its not uncommon for PhD hires from top schools to be paid upper 6figs (i.e 600k+) of real money, according to a few friends of mine doing PhDs at top schools. OpenAI is probably the only one thats truly "competitive." I also (personally) know of several non-ML offers that were substantially higher than FAANG. Though even within FAANG only Meta and maybe Google (and Amazon at hogher levels) are very competitive. Meta and Google likely have better growth prospects though with better refreshers, bonuses, stock growth, etc. But up front Tesla AI offers are definitely very strong. Even then I'm not sure its worth the stress.
• bamboozled 2y ago
  And even if you delivered something nice you could still get fired for something stupid. No thanks.