Haste Makes Waste
Haste Makes Waste
- Compelling mission and concept for delivery.
- Impressive talent to work alongside.
- Overall culture is busy and stressed, not much to foster friendships
- Running unnecessarily lean: very low tolerance to cut you
- Toxic culture carried over by former Tesla, SpaceX, etc...
- Frequent re-orgs and lots of first-time managers putting blame on you in stressful environment
With hundreds of employees and global operations it's time to stop acting like a small startup. Consistent poor leadership "Haste makes Waste" 1) unrealistic project planning and timelines, in which engineering is being burnt to fill the gaps.
If you start with more realistic timelines, you will have better output because engineers can follow-through with higher quality, rather than brashly jumping from fire to fire... Also constantly rush ordering prototype parts or next-day air travel is expensive! 2) Unnecessarily lean: cutting people during critical pushes heaps more tech gap onto the remainder.
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November 21, 2022I applied online. The process took two weeks. I thought it was a good balance of technical and culture questions. The interviewer gave clear and straightforward answers about the day-to-day of the job as well as the opportunity on the team to grow.
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February 6, 2021The interviewer did not seem interested in me and was not engaging. I did not feel an enthusiasm to join the company as much as I had been impressed by the online information and work that they are doing.
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South San Francisco, California, United StatesSeptember 17, 2020I applied through another source. The CEO reached out to invite me for an interview. He proposed a time, but didn't communicate it to HR. So I made a new appointment with HR. First, I talked to the Head of the department for 30 to 45 minutes with m
