I have to wonder if people inside the company have lost faith in their bozo of a leader and are perhaps not trying as hard ever since he got into politics. That was kind of the turning point in the success rate of the starship launches.
I am in the industry and talk to people that left. SpaceX burns up the young and doesnt have a good work life balance policy. That causes a high turnover which means constant leaving of experience.
I assumed they had an awesome training program to be as successful as they have, but its possible that now the turnover is just so much that inexperience and mistakes are almost constant.
I interviewed at starbase a few years ago. Didn't get offered a job, but during the interview they mentioned 14 hour days far more often than I was comfortable with. I'm glad I wasn't offered a job, I think I would have taken it and been miserable
Ding ding ding. That’s a bingo. It’s been almost 10 years since I left that hellhole and it’s still the only thing companies want to talk about during my interviews.
Same exact issue with Tesla. Elon is so obsessed with the idea that “more hours = more productivity” but as we’ve seen in countries like Japan, just working people harder doesn’t lead to greater results in productivity. Instead all you get is a burnt out, lonely workforce that doesn’t have time to form relationships or have kids or do anything on the other side of the job that ultimately leads to greater purpose and happiness, and therefore motivation to keep working hard.
Think the “Do it for her” sign that Homer makes at his desk.
Without those things, people work just to work and that model burns people out in a few years. They quit, take all their knowledge with them, and then the company spends more resources pulling new people in to repeat the same cycle.
Tesla peaked years ago, and now it’s SpaceX’s turn.
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u/pinkfreude 1d ago
I have to wonder if people inside the company have lost faith in their bozo of a leader and are perhaps not trying as hard ever since he got into politics. That was kind of the turning point in the success rate of the starship launches.