和马斯克一起工作是什么感觉?

John Buckmaster
I worked for two of his companies….Solar City(now Tesla Solar) and Tesla. My experience wasn’t great….I was working at Solar City when he officially took over(he was already a major shareholder prior to that). At that time sales were in a slight downturn as opposed to the year prior, but shortly after he officially took over those sales went into a death spiral. Elon decided that he didn’t really like the aesthetic nature of a solar ‘panels’ and decided to quickly transition to solar ‘roof’. ‘Roof’ was still in the design phase. He made the decision to start taking deposits for solar roof and stop pushing Solar panels. He also decided to get rid of the sales teams(80%). He wanted to push sales online (much like how Tesla auto does it). That sales model did not work and sales went downhill fast. Solar roof is amazing Aesthetically, and the product is mature, however the means of installing it, and the price point is still cost prohibitive for the masses. He also wanted to push his batteries(Power Wall) for in-home use. That’s great, and it is a fine product, but it is usually an add to a LARGE solar system…so… If you are not selling solar systems, then you are not going to sell very many batteries.
Since he took over, two years ago, solar city(Tesla) has had mass layoffs and firings. Thousands of hard-working people have lost their jobs(50%) because of bad business Decisions. You don’t hear much about this, nor do you hear much about his layoffs at Tesla Auto (They also have had mass layoffs). I don’t know many people that still work there, but the couple of people that I do, say it’s a shadow of what it once was…and… morale is an all time low. You don’t hear much about this either. What you hear about are Musk’s next…latest and greatest ventures. Why is that? It is because of carefully coordinated marketing, and manipulation of his “brand”…
I will say that, when I worked there, the in-house training that was provided/offered to all employees was outstanding. The apps(we used a lot of them) to preform our jobs were well written and allowed employees to work efficiently.

我在他的两家公司工作过，太阳能城市(now Tesla Solar现在的特斯拉太阳能)和特斯拉汽车。我的经历不是很好……当他正式接管太阳能城市时，我正在那里工作(在此之前，他已经是一个大股东)。与前一年相比，当时的销售略有下滑，但在他正式接手后不久，销售就进入了死亡螺旋。埃隆觉得自己并不喜欢太阳能“电池板”的美感，决定迅速转向太阳能“屋顶”。“屋顶”仍在设计阶段。他决定开始收取太阳能屋顶的押金，并停止推广太阳能电池板。他还决定解散销售团队(80%)。他想要推动在线销售(就像特斯拉汽车一样)。这种销售模式并不奏效，销量迅速下滑。太阳能屋顶非常美观，产品成熟，不管安装的方式如何，这个价格对于大众来说仍然是高得令人望而却步。他还想把他的电池推广到家庭使用。这很好，这也是一个很好的产品，但它通常是一个大型太阳能系统的补充部分……所以，如果你不卖太阳能系统，那么你就卖不出很多电池。自从他两年前上任以来，太阳能城市已经进行了大规模的裁员和解雇。成千上万辛勤工作的人因为他糟糕的商业决策失去了工作(50%)。这方面的消息并不多，关于他在特斯拉汽车公司裁员的消息也不多见(他们也进行了大规模裁员)。我认识的在那里工作的人不多，但我认识的几个人都说，现在的公司已经今不如昔了，士气也一直低落。你们也没怎么听说过。你听到的都是马斯克下一个……最新的、最伟大的冒险。为什么会这样？正是由于精心协调的营销，以及对他的“品牌”的操纵……
我想说的是，我在那里工作时，为所有员工提供的内部培训都非常出色。APP程序(我们使用了很多)很好地完成了我们的工作，让员工们能够高效地工作。

Also of note…
When I started there we had 125+ employees working out of my office. When I got laid off there were 17 employees left. The bulk of those employees comprised of 2 install teams, one person to performs each of a handful of specific office functions, a manager, and a admin assistant, and a couple of people in the warehouse.
It is my opinion, Elon’s supposed innovative business models and ‘Vision’ deserves the cricisism and scrutiny he is now staring to receive.
In my time there ( just under two years) I only knew One employee that had a Tesla. That’s because, quite frankly, no one that works there can afford them. I met a handful of employees (out of hundreds) that have solar on thier roof, and one that I knew had the in-home Tesla battery(power wall)…As an employee ther is really no incentive to buy any of the products…. Particularly the automobiles! If you bought a solar system you got $1000 off but had to wait until there was a gap in schedule to accommodate the installation. The average price of a residential solar system, even after rebates/incentives, generally starts at 25 to 30K. Depending on size it quickly goes up from there. Most employees just couldn’t afford them.
I was paid less than what was promised. I was shown the same type of pay scales that everyone is shown. I NEVER had the opportunity to make that amount of money. You could have spent 70–80 or more hours trying, but pay was directly tied to volume of sales(I was not in sales just to be clear), and that is common sense… when sales went down so did the majority of ALL the employees pay.
I’m not seeing any first-hand accounts from people that worked for a Musk held company. All I’m seeing, as answers, are cut-and-pastes from what I call the ‘Musk propaganda machine’…
He/they talk a good game…but what has he actually accomplished other than to become a billionaire?

还值得注意的的是......
刚开始的时候，我们有125多名员工在我的办公室工作。当我被解雇时，还剩17名员工。这些员工大部分由两个安装团队组成，一个人执行少数特定的办公室功能，一个经理和一个行政助理，以及仓库中的几个人。
在我看来，马斯克所谓的创新商业模式和“愿景”应当受到批评和审视。在我任职期间(不到两年)，我只知道一个员工有一辆特斯拉。坦白地说，那是因为在那里工作的人都买不起。我在数百名员工中遇到了少数几个在屋顶上安装了太阳能，还有一个我知道的员工使用了家用特斯拉电池……作为那里的一名员工，真的没有购买任何产品的动机，特别是汽车!如果你买了一个太阳能系统，你可以得到1000美元的折扣，但你必须等待，直到有安装的档期。住宅太阳能系统的平均价格，即使在回扣/激励之后，通常也在2.5万到3万美元。根据尺寸的不同，它的价格也迅速上升。大多数员工都买不起。
我得到的报酬比承诺的少。他们向我展示了和其他人一样的薪资等级。但我从来没有机会拿到那么多钱。你可能会花上70-80个小时甚至更多的时间工作，但薪酬与销量直接挂钩(我并不是销售岗位)，这里有个普遍的常识是，销量下降，员工的薪水就会下降。
我没有看到任何马斯克控股公司的员工提供的第一手资料。我所看到的，作为答案，都是从我所谓的“马斯克宣传机器”剪切和粘贴过来的……
他/他们话讲得很好，但除了成为一个亿万富翁之外，他还取得了什么成就呢?

Mike Townsend
Elon never puts up with any technical BS. He focuses extremely highly on the integrity of work and has a very professional but low tolerance for under-performers.
I am told that he doesn't care much about personality flaws, as long as you take the initiative, get shit done, and fast.
At SpaceX there is an expression: "No matter how hard you work, someone else is working harder"... You can guess who that is.
Quoting my friend: "Elon is a serious powerhouse in the building and sets the culture for everyone, which makes it exciting to work there."
All in all, it sounds like an incredibly intense, inspiring, and focused operation at SpaceX with some of the world's most intelligent people, a large % in their mid 20s/ early 30s'.

伊隆从不容忍任何技术废话。他非常注重工作的完整性，非常专业，但对表现不佳的员工容忍度很低。我被告知，他不太在意你的人格缺陷，只要你能主动迅速地完成任务。
SpaceX公司有句话:“不管你工作有多努力，总有人比你更努力”……你可以猜到说的是谁。
引用我朋友的话:“伊隆是大楼里是一个强大的动力，为每个人树立了文化，这让你为在那里工作感到兴奋。”
总而言之，在SpaceX，这听起来是一种非常紧张、鼓舞人心和专注的运营方式，拥有世界上最聪明的一些人，其中很大一部分人年龄在25岁左右或30岁出头。

Carden Bagwell
I didn't work with elon directly much when I was at Tesla, but my team and I met with him to discuss obstacles on a couple occasions.
The thing that stuck out to me most was how quickly he caught on to what he were trying to accomplish and what challenges we faced. He also was never intimidated by our challenges. He didn't really seem worried about technical details. He always had a way of taking a complicated problem and making it very simple.
He wasn't ever rude or unprofessional, but he was never afraid to interrupt or challenge an assertion.

在特斯拉的时候，我并没有和伊隆直接合作过，但我和我的团队有几次与他会面，讨论问题。
最令我印象深刻的是，他很快就意识到自己想要实现的目标，以及我们面临的挑战。他也从来没有被我们的挑战吓倒。他似乎并不担心技术细节。他总是有办法把复杂的问题简单化。他从不粗鲁或不专业，但他从不害怕打断或质疑一个主张。
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Petra Farber
He’s a short-tempered boss, Even though he is the Real life Iron Man. He will be furious if he sees somebody stopping his Goals or his Growth whether the person may be a stranger or his high paid employee.
Musk became increasingly frustrated with Peter Rawlinson, who was leading the development of the Model S. During one spat, Musk towered over the chief engineer screaming, “I don’t believe you!” as he jabbed a finger toward Rawlinson’s chest. Rawlinson eventually quit and later started an electric car company of his own, Lucid Motors.

他是个脾气暴躁的老板，尽管他是真人版的钢铁侠。如果他看到有人停止他的目标或他的成长,他会很愤怒,不管这个人是陌生人还是他的高薪员工。马斯克对开发特斯拉Model S的彼得·罗林森越来越失望。在一次争吵中，马斯克站在总工程师的面前尖叫道:“我不相信你!”他用手指戳了戳罗林森的胸口。罗林森最终辞职了，后来创办了自己的电动汽车公司Lucid Motors。

Charlie Garcia
A new biography of him was released recently. To be honest, and to contradict the hero worship that Quora (and to be honest myself) throws on Elon Musk, you may not like the answer in this book, and in anecdotal evidence. To start I would like to caveat this answer by saying that I would love to work at SpaceX, and that I would willingly put up with everything I am about to describe to work there. I don't work for any of Elon's companies (yet, fingers crossed) but I know people who have, and do.
Elon has been described by many as a driving task master who sets short deadlines with tight budgets and doesn't accept failure. He demands the best from every member of his teams and himself. An acquaintance who worked for SpaceX in McGregor, Texas described how every day of her internship food was catered in because there wasn't enough time for them to go and get food and keep the schedule. There was a controversial statement made by an anonymous employee who said that Elon penalized him for missing a company event to watch the birth of a child. Mr. Musk disputes this event occurring at all, but it was included in the book. Elon doesn't have time to put up with anyone who isn't 100% on board with his vision. I heard him described as having a "unique sense of empathy." This is because he is acutely empathetic with humanity as a species, but seems to regard individuals as tools. He doesn't seem to be a bad man, just a driven one.
So how would it feel to work for Elon Musk? That depends. If you don't enjoy pressure, don't have self-confidence, or can't push the limits of human endurance and creativity, working for Elon Musk would not be an enjoyable experience. Appreciate the work of his companies, wear the merchandise, be an investor, but do not work there. If you thrive under pressure, are strutting around with ice in your veins, and willing to take 10 years off your lifespan due to blood pressure and sleep problems, step up, get hired, and go change the world. You still might not enjoy the years in a sense of getting pleasure from them, but I imagine there is a sense of satisfaction and purpose that can hardly be matched by any other form of employment.

他的一本新传记最近出版了。说实话，与Quora(和我自己)对埃隆·马斯克的英雄崇拜相矛盾的是，你可能不喜欢这本书中的答案，也不喜欢那些轶事证据。在回答这个问题之前，我想先说明一下，我很愿意在SpaceX工作，而且为了在那里工作，我愿意忍受我将要描述的一切。我现在还没有在埃隆的任何一家公司工作，但我认识为他工作的人。埃隆被很多人描述为一个有紧迫感的任务大师，他会设定预算紧张的短期目标，而且不接受失败。他要求他的团队和他自己做到最好。
我一个在德州麦格雷戈SpaceX工作的泛泛之交，描述了她实习时每天吃的食物，他们没有足够的时间去买食物，也没有足够的时间完成工作。一位不愿透露姓名的员工发表了一篇有争议的声明，称埃隆惩罚了他，因为他去看自己的孩子出生而错过了公司的一个活动。马斯克根本逗人这件事发生过，但这件事确实出现在了书中。埃隆没有时间去忍受那些不完全赞同他愿景的人。我听到他说,他有一种“独特的同理心”。这是因为他对作为一个物种的人类有着强烈的同理心，但似乎只把个人视为工具。他似乎不是个坏人，只是个有动力的人。
那么，为埃隆·马斯克工作是什么感觉呢?这得看情况。如果你不喜欢压力，没有自信，或者不能挑战人类耐力和创造力的极限，为埃隆·马斯克工作将不会是一种愉快的经历。
你可以欣赏他的公司，用他的商品，做他的投资者，但不要在那里工作。如果你能在压力下茁壮成长，十年饮冰难冻热血，愿意因为血压和睡眠而减少10年寿命，那么就站出来，找个他们的工作，去改变世界。你可能仍然无法享受这几年的快乐时光，但我想，这种满足感和使命感是其他任何形式的工作都无法比拟的。

Jon Sanchez
I met Elon in late 90’s when he was researching technologies for a new project. He was looking for software for a new endeavor and I was a young sales person with one of those products in my sales bag.
He called first, and we discussed what our products could do. He was nice on the phone. He had tons of questions. He had a staccato way about him. If he was learning from you, you were able to talk. If he had caught on, he would interrupt and try and move you to the next subject he was interested in. I was able to satisfy him enough that he wanted to come in for a personal presentation. Only in hindsight do I recognize that since he was a relatively unknown person at that time, did no one make a big deal about the meeting. It was just me and Elon in the conference room. He peppered me with questions as I tried to get through my presentation. After the presentation, he asked if he could get a personal look at the software source code. I told him I would need to ask my management.
Our company selling model, or licensing model didn’t lend well to offsite source code trials of our software as, at that time, everything was client/server based; meaning, we would have had to send him disks of our software. We offered to have him come in to meet with our engineers to go over the software, but Elon was more interested in seeing it for himself. Specifically, what pieces of the software would work for what he had in mind for his new project. This is where my inexperience and youth failed me. This, according to my management, was just another person asking for a demo, and we had this conversation many many times with many other prospects, and I was told an offsite version of our software was not an option. I wrote the best email I could, to explain this to Elon. I wish I had kept it. He didn’t like the response, and in what has become typical Elon Musk bravado, wrote back an email that somehow hit me the wrong way. I don’t exactly remember what I wrote back, but the email I wrote, precipitated an email from Elon to our COO who came to my cube and asked me what the hell was I doing with this particular prospect.
I explained my position and email response with respect to our source code policy to the CEO and COO to no avail. That afternoon, I was removed from managing that particular account, and my manager gave me a lecture on sending emails. That wasn’t the last time I encountered Elon, but it made the biggest impression on me. I found him extremely persistent, focused, and somewhat brash, but strangely genuine. With the exception of getting me removed from his account, I thought it was a fun encounter.

我认识埃隆是在90年代末，当时他正在为一个新项目研究技术。他在寻找一种新的软件，而我是一个年轻的销售人员，我的销售包里就装着一种这样的产品。他先给我打了个电话，然后我们讨论了我们的产品可以做什么。他在电话里很友好，问了一大堆问题。如果他向你学习，你就能开口说话。如果他听懂了，他会打断你，试图把你引到他感兴趣的下一个话题。我让他很满意，他想过来做个个人演示。我只是事后才意识到，由于他当时是一个相对不知名的人，没有人对这次会议大惊小怪。会议室里只有我和埃隆。当我试图完成我的报告时，他不断地向我提出问题。演示结束后，他问是否可以亲自看看软件源代码。我告诉他，我得问问我的经理。我们公司的销售模式，或者说是授权模式并不能很好地适用于我们软件的离线源代码测试，那时候，一切都是基于客户端/服务器的，也就是说，我们必须把我们软件的磁盘寄给他。我们提出让他来和我们的工程师一起检查软件，但埃隆更感兴趣的是亲自看看。具体来说，软件的哪些部分可以在他的新项目中发挥作用。这就是我年轻缺乏经验，让我失望的地方。根据我经理的说法，这只是另一个要求演示的客户，我们与许多其他潜在客户进行了多次这样的对话，我被告知要我们提供软件的离线版本是不可能的。为了向埃隆解释这一点，我尽我所能地写了一封最好的邮件。他不喜欢这样的回复，以埃隆.马斯克典型的虚张声势的方式回复了一封电子邮件，但不知怎么的，他这封邮件发错了。我不太记得我回复了什么，但我写的那封邮件，促成埃隆给我们的CEO写了一封邮件，CEO来到我的办公间，问我为什么要处理这个特殊的客户。我向CEO和COO解释了我的立场和关于我们源代码政策的电子邮件，但无济于事。那天下午，我被解除了管理那个账户的职务，我的经理给我上了一堂关于发送电子邮件的课。那不是我最后一次见到埃隆，但它给我留下了最深刻的印象。我发现他非常执着、专注，还有点鲁莽，但出奇地真诚。除了把我从他的账户中除名之外，我觉得这是个有趣的遭遇。

Joseph Reinemann
I can only report things I've heard from people who worked under him at SpaceX, but it seems that how good a boss he is hinges on what kind of personality you have.
Musk is extremely passionate about what his companies are trying to accomplish, and he generally expects those who work under him to share that same level of passion. If you do, he's the best boss in the world. If you don't, he's an absolute nightmare who injects added stress into every situation he's involved in.

我只能从他在SpaceX的手下那里听说一些事情，他是不是个好老板似乎取决于你有什么样的性格。马斯克对他的公司正在努力实现的目标充满激情，他通常希望手下的员工也能拥有同样的激情。如果你这么做了，他就是世界上最好的老板。如果你不这样做，他绝对是一个噩梦，给他涉足的每一件事都注入额外的压力。

James Pratt
Love / hate seems to be the most popular feeling between Elon Musk and his employees.
Think of Tesla and SpaceX (the two companies he’s invested most of his time into) as a family. A very disciplined, tightly knit family. Elon is the culmination of a passionate entrepreneur. If anyone gets in the way of Musk’s mission, he would personally get behind you to watch exactly what you are doing to make sure that it is done. He would tell you that you are holding up the mission and that the whole company is waiting on you. He is determined and brutal. If you are not proving prosperous then you are not an asset to the team, to the mission, and you aren't deserving of your job. People get fired left and right, the employees get berated for the smallest deficiencies, coffee is spit across the meeting table for being too luke warm… The whole nine yards.
However because these companies function as closely and as tightly knit as a family, the employees have seen both sides of Musk. His criticizing and passionately empowering side. For example, the mission control crew for the second and third failed attempts for the Falcon 1 was devastated. They had put in months work of 16–20 hour days just to see it fail. It marked the end of SpaceX because funding had run out. But Musk had called into mission control and told them it was going to be alright and that they needed to focus on the next mission. That they were going to get through it. Like a dad would after his teenager got his car into a wreck. Sure he was disappointed and dismayed, but he is not going to just throw everything away. He is a master at prevailing and encouraging people to do the same.
The workers who have gone through his berating and have gotten fired all seem to have this respect towards the man.

“爱”和“恨”似乎是埃隆·马斯克和他的员工之间最普遍的情感。
把特斯拉和SpaceX(他大部分时间都在投资这两家公司)视为一个家庭。埃隆是充满激情的企业家。如果有人完成马斯克的任务受阻，他会亲自站在你身后，仔细观察你在做什么，确保任务完成。他会告诉你，你正在拖延任务，整个公司都在等着你。他意志坚定，冷酷无情。如果你不能证明自己的成功，那么你就不是团队的资产，任务的资产，你就不配做你的工作。时时有人被解雇，员工因为最小的缺点而被斥责，咖啡因为太热而被吐在会议桌上……各式各样。
然而，由于这些公司的运作就像一个家庭一样紧密，员工们看到了马斯克的两面。一面惩罚严厉，一面又是激情如前的鼓励。例如，在猎鹰1号的第二次和第三次任务失败了。他们花了几个月的时间，每天工作16-20个小时，还是看到它失败了。这标志着SpaceX的破产，因为资金已经耗尽。但马斯克打电话给任务控制中心，告诉他们一切都会好起来的，他们需要专注于下一次任务。他们会挺过去的。就像一个父亲在他十几岁的孩子把他的车撞毁后会做的那样。当然，他也感到失望和沮丧，但他不会放弃一切。他是得胜高手，也鼓励人们这样。那些被他斥责过并被解雇的工人似乎都对他有这种尊重。

Scott Rankine
Startups are bloody hard and the reality is that 99% of them go nowhere, not really. Every now and then one wins the lottery and succeeds brilliantly. But its not by accident. You have to work twice as hard and smart as everyone else, not to mention be very lucky. There's no margin for error. Its a full throttle race to succeed and stay ahead. Intel's Andy Grove said it best - 'only the paranoid survive'. Elon's quest to create a self-sustaining human presence on Mars requires zeal and a unique mindset. And its definitely not about the money or going public. Future historians may well credit him with having saved the human race given our innate capacity for self destruction.

创业是非常困难的，现实是99%的创业公司都没有发展起来。偶尔会有人中彩票一样获得辉煌的成功。但这并非偶然。你必须比别人加倍努力，加倍聪明，更不要说要非常幸运了。没有犯错的余地。这是一场全力以赴的比赛，以取得成功并保持领先。英特尔的安迪格罗夫说得最好——“只有偏执狂才能生存”。埃隆想要在火星上创造一个自我维持的人类存在，需要热情和独特的心态。这绝对不是为了钱或上市。考虑到人类天生具有自我毁灭的能力，未来的历史学家可能会把拯救人类的功劳归功于他。

David Lund
In one of his latest interviews he says he likes people that are working 80 hour weeks and at times of demand - 100 hours. If you`re one of these that are working hard, working smart and working as much as humanly possible, go work for SpaceX or Tesla.

在最近的一次采访中，他说，他喜欢每周工作80小时，有工作需要时工作100小时的人。如果你是工作努力、工作利索、尽人类所能工作的人之一，那就去SpaceX或特斯拉工作吧。

Russell Booth
I know that vegans wouldn't like him because while one of his companies is working to develop a microchip which can be planted into peoples brains who are suffering from paralysis, they're testing them inside of monkeys brains,live monkeys

我知道素食主义者不会喜欢他，因为他的一家公司正在开发一种微芯片，可以植入瘫痪的人的大脑，他们正在猴子的大脑中进行测试，活生生的猴子。

Bill Sorensen
I initially passed on this question, as I have never worked with or under him, but I'd like the opportunity one day.

起初我没有回答这个问题，因为我从来没有和他共事过，也没有在他手下工作过，但我希望有一天能有这样的机会。

James Glenn
Reports vary widely. He sometimes is under enormous pressure, usually self-imposed. He can be very demanding of his employees, but he makes it a point to show employees that he works just as hard as they do, if not more so. Employees rate him highly as a leader.

媒体的说法都天差地别。他有时会承受巨大的压力，通常是自我施加的。他对员工的要求非常高，但他强调要向员工表明，他就算没有更努力的话，也和他们一样努力工作。员工们对他的领导评价很高。

George Rynd
You need to constantly explain things to someone significantly dumber than you, and this dumb person will act like he understands what you’re talking about and ask really dumb questions about why his dumb ideas can’t be used to fix the problems you’re having.

你需要不断地向比你笨得多的人解释事情，而这个笨人会表现得好像他明白你在说什么，还会问一些非常愚蠢的问题，比如为什么他愚蠢的想法不能用来解决你遇到的问题。