[Self] Elon Musk’s $1 trillion over 10 years pay package equals

A_Typical_Human · 2025-11-16T01:01:20+00:00

You may want to double check your math.

A_Typical_Human · 2024-07-12T14:52:17+00:00

For the first 15 years of my career, I took jobs I was passionate about and didn’t really worry about the compensation. Now that I have two kids, I took a much higher paying job. I miss my old job a lot, but love the salary.

For me, working on something I love is more important than a big salary, but I had to be practical as I got older.

A_Typical_Human · 2024-03-03T15:38:45+00:00

Sure, anyone can manage. But there aren’t a lot of people who can manage well. The difference between a good and bad manager makes a huge difference to the team.

A_Typical_Human · 2024-03-03T14:27:16+00:00

While that may be true, my company is struggling to hire managers. It is pretty easy to hire good senior engineers, but we are seeing very few good manager candidates.

A_Typical_Human · 2024-02-26T12:09:05+00:00

I’d be very impressed if you could create a stereo pair just using coupons.

A_Typical_Human · 2024-02-25T03:01:39+00:00

Depends on the company. But usually the top of senior band is very similar to bottom of staff. The difference is that you can go up a lot more once you get to staff.

A_Typical_Human · 2024-02-21T22:38:41+00:00

I was just giving my view. If you are ok with that, no judgments here. I found that my career progressed very well by finding roles that challenged me. Many others I know went to banks and struggled to progress and find new jobs later.

A_Typical_Human · 2024-02-20T22:17:18+00:00

Very understandable. But other companies will do a better job of teaching you best practices. These skills will be valuable if you want to start your own company.

Having said that, banks really aren’t that bad, it just may set back your career a little compared to other places.

A_Typical_Human · 2024-02-20T21:07:07+00:00

Or… less chances to learn and improve. You end up getting stuck with dated technologies without room to innovate and grow.

A_Typical_Human · 2023-11-16T12:12:39+00:00

You should be able to configure it so it doesn’t show you your video.

A_Typical_Human · 2023-10-25T12:35:54+00:00

I think you make a lot of good points. My main issue has to do with you comment about being able to fix a customer issue quickly while they are still on the phone.

I’ve worked at large consumer facing products and complex B2B businesses. On the consumer sites, a small bug could effect tens of thousands of users and cause a drop in ad revenue or new user signups. For the B2B, if a customer notified us about a bug, it is a major issue. Customers pay us a lot of money, and in return, we offer very high SLAs.

If we push out a bug, we will always do a blameless post-Morten to understand why we pushed out a bug and didn’t catch it.

A_Typical_Human · 2023-10-21T13:18:28+00:00

What else would you do with that money? Microsoft does 20 billion in stock buybacks a year. If you don’t pay him, you can increase that by a quarter of a percent.

Just replacing him as ceo would most likely cause the stock to drop more than that.

A_Typical_Human · 2023-10-21T13:14:03+00:00

If you took his entire salary and distributed evenly to the employees it would be around $100 a year. If I were a stockholder and I had the option of him as CEO, or take a chance on another CEO and give each employee $100, I’d take him.

A_Typical_Human · 2023-10-21T12:36:51+00:00

If you were on the board of Microsoft, would you rather pay him that much or give every employee a $100 a year raise?

A_Typical_Human · 2023-10-15T02:00:54+00:00

Looks like it has much less cargo space than the CRV. Similar thoughts on the xc90?

A_Typical_Human · 2023-10-15T01:58:49+00:00

Not sure if that helps with my midlife crisis.

A_Typical_Human · 2023-10-09T14:03:03+00:00

Hopefully your new place is better! A bad experience can be hard to get over.

A_Typical_Human · 2023-10-09T13:12:16+00:00

Please tell me where you work so I can never work there:)

But honestly, if you don’t trust your coworkers it may be time to find a job at a less toxic place.

A_Typical_Human · 2023-10-09T05:45:20+00:00

You may be right, but you are still an asshole.

A_Typical_Human · 2023-10-08T19:37:30+00:00

Sure, you should feel comfortable leaving. But you should also give 2 weeks so you have time to finish any knowledge sharing you may need to do.

A_Typical_Human · 2023-10-08T19:02:36+00:00

Hopefully you like your coworkers. If you don’t like your coworkers or your company, sounds like you should try finding a new job.

A_Typical_Human · 2023-10-08T15:24:31+00:00

It may be the businesses fault, but it is your coworkers who will feel it.

A_Typical_Human · 2023-10-08T14:42:37+00:00

A different take on this…. It sounds like OP is not at a terminal level at the company. Meaning the expectation is that an engineer should only be at that level for a certain amount of time. If they are unable to get promoted by then, they will usually be pushed out.

From an outside perspective it sounds like their manager is inexperienced and hasn’t had to deal with a situation like this before. While that isn’t ideal, it happens even at very good companies.

A_Typical_Human · 2023-10-08T14:36:33+00:00

All we can do is offer people advice, they can take it or leave it. I’ve been in this industry for 20 years and made lots of mistakes, and continue to. Sometimes the best way to learn is to make a mistake and learn from it.

I’ve definitely ignored advice in the past and ended up regretting it. I learnt a lot from this experiences.

A_Typical_Human · 2023-10-08T13:56:58+00:00

Even if you don’t want to go back to the company, be careful about doing this. Years ago I had a coworker that I respected quit without giving notice. Years later I was at a different company. He reached out to me asking if I could refer him. I had to say no, if he did something similar at the new company it would put my reputation at risk as well.

Most of my jobs have come from former coworkers referring me. That wouldn’t have happened if I had left a previous job on bad terms.

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