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Is this article a joke? The first linked person in the article https://www.linkedin.com/posts/siddhantawasthi_i-recently-made-one-of-the-hardest-decisions-activ
by 650 11mo ago
Is this article a joke? The first linked person in the article https://www.linkedin.com/posts/siddhantawasthi_i-recently-made-one-of-the-hardest-decisions-activity-7393453677438697472-fgWC/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/siddhantawasthi_i-recently-ma... - 8 years of post college experience as a PROGRAM MANAGER. For those not in tech this is akin to project manager, or someone that asks for status updates and communicates estimates and effort. Definitely not someone super technical or Director+ level.
"If we assume for a moment that Tesla’s recent sales declines are entirely due to faulty management, specifically caused by people with the job title “program manager,” then Tesla is well in its way to massive improvements. " - This style of writing is hard to parse and dumb.
"Awasthi notes in his post that his signature accomplishments at Tesla occurred “all before hitting 30.” Indeed, it appears that in 2017, when he was 23, he was a student at the University of Cincinnati working on a school project related to the Musk-led “Hyperloop” concept. "
I mean he's most likely late 20's early 30's at the moment so not sure what this is getting at.
- supportengineer 11mo ago"Either it's all a joke, or none of it is."
- 650 11mo agoI don't understand. This quip is a reference to The Avengers it seems from my search.
- horisbrisby 11mo agoIt sure sounds like an analysis concluding that Musk hires completely unqualified people so they can be micromanaged and then scape-goats when it turns out the management they didn't participate much in was bad (or was maybe fine but could be blamed for problems beyond its particular scope).
- 650 11mo agoMusk didn't hire them personally, Tesla has 125k+ employees.
- horisbrisby 11mo agoSure CEO attribution 101. Can't possibly be responsible for everything bad in the lower ranks, but no doubt worthy of credit if a completely nontraditional choice no other company would allow works out.