"Iron man" Thomas g how do work experience? -Thomas g, iron man, Tesla-IT information
This article from CITIC Publishing House April 20 upcoming new book, iron man in Silicon Valley: ailong·masike adventures of life, text extracted from the book by the geek Park compiled into. Ashili·wansi the author interviewed many at Tesla and SpaceX company employees, where we can learn about working conditions in its staff the real ailong·masike.
Harsh tyrant
Musk has "swallowed the glass and look long into an abyss," to describe their own business life. Back in 1999, musk led Confinity and X.com for the online payments market, he is known for extreme working hours. Then employees said: "we are working 20 hours a day, and he worked 23 hours. ”
Tesla into a crisis when he directed staff on Saturday and Sunday are still working hard and sleeping under the table until the project is completed. Employee dissatisfaction, and would like to have time with family, Mr MASKEY said: "we in bankruptcy, will have more time to spend with the family. ”
If an employee told him, make a choice because "has always been done before", he'll be kicked out of the Conference room.
An employee missed an event because of the baby's birth, musk Strip he called in the message: "we're changing the world, change history, and if you decide not to go all out, you don't do that. ”
Mr MASKEY is a harsh, "tyrants", executives often bet on who will catch it before the meeting. Of Mr MASKEY described a lot of ordinary employees, they respect him, understood his demanding, also believes he has reached the point where mean, feels loose, every time he met feel may be dismissed. Musk is very harsh for employees not up to his standards, and he always says, "If you want to fire someone, it should be immediately fired, otherwise it will only waste each other's time. ”
Final interview experience strange problems
As the founder of SpaceX, SpaceX the top 1000 employees, including guards and technicians, are musk in person for an interview.
Space is the standard interview questions for the engineers wrote more than 500 lines of code, the final interview candidates will be asked to complete a specific task, musk wrote an article, explaining why he wanted to work for SpaceX. If the candidate did well in the interview and write a good composition, and their reward is the opportunity to meet and horse gram, although time may be only 15 seconds to 30 seconds.
When the interview started, musk might still be in the mail and will not talk too much. When in chat, he will ask some odd questions, for instance, he will ask the question:
You stand on the surface of the Earth, go south 1 mile to go West 1 mile, go 1 mile further north, just back to the original point, may I ask where you are?
Most engineers can answer right away: the Arctic. Musk will then ask "where else could? "Only a few people can answer it, musk will delight and explain this topic, reference formulas. He didn't care if someone can answer it correctly, he is more concerned with the way they describe the problem and ways to solve the problem.
Cannot have a typo in the email, not abbreviations
Musk on the message there is very subtle flaws in mind, and once he found misspelled the word in a message, it will bite and hold, or even simply found it impossible to read. If marketers make grammatical errors in the email will be directly asked to leave.
Musk will occasionally send e-mail to company-wide, sometimes just to let people know that something is bothering him. One of the famous message was issued in May 2010, with the theme "acronym is really disgusting." In this e-mail, he very rudely said:
Unless it has been approved by me, other abbreviations cannot be included in the glossary of SpaceX. For example, there should be no "HTS" or "VTS" such a call, this shortened version of hate actually more confusing than the original ... ...
Musk hopes all abbreviations must be approved by him, such hands-on sounds funny, but it does allow teams to become more efficient. Since then, employees in private abbreviations policy called "A.S.S Rule" (shit).
Never say "can't do"
And musk have worked long can attest, in terms of time, he was a madman, he assumes that all goes well, work out the most aggressive timetable he can think of, and then assume that everyone can work harder, in order to complete the production schedule.
Employees joke that musk beat out a single line of code may be calculated in a few seconds, and then multiplied by the expected final software contains a number of lines of code and estimate the time required to complete a software project. Musk himself said "I never intentionally set impossible goals. "In his view, if not, will only delay the time from becoming uncontrollable.
If you tell Mr MASKEY, his demands are impossible, such as budget does not fall or a part cannot be made before the deadline, he would say: "OK, this project has nothing to do with you, from now on I am the CEO of the project. At the same time served as both CEO and I also do your work, but I can finish. "More frightening is that he's more than just saying! He fired one person at a time, will take over that person's work, no matter what the project, he will be able to complete.
If in case, you find yourself short of musk's stringent requirements had to report back to him some bad news, Smart engineers will do all it can to identify possible solutions. One employee summarized: "can't come up to tell Mr MASKEY couldn't do something, he'll throw everyone out of Office. We must put the interest list and provides the perfect solution, elaborated after we finish, musk said, "OK, thank you" everyone breathed a sigh of relief. ”
Sometimes, very ruthless ... ...
According to some former employees say, musk treat employees like bullets-throw out.
One of the most typical examples are, he in addition to Mali·beisi·bulang. Who is brown? She is a loyal personal Secretary of musk around for 12 years, every week to shuttle between Los Angeles and the Silicon Valley, 7*24 hours and hard work, together with musk in the schedules of the two companies, and was responsible for public relations, often have to make business decisions. Just like iron man, pepper ? Potts around Tuoni·Shitake. It is said that her desk in front of the musk, each employee to find musk will stay in her desk for a moment, beisi·bulang signaled shook his head, showed that musk in a bad mood, good time to not apply for budget, we would be well-advised to leave.
Iron Man guess Pepper Potts, but musk.
Cause Mr Brown put raise wages to musk, musk for her to take a few weeks off, will take on her work during the period, Brown when I returned from leave, Mr MASKEY said no longer needed her, gave her a 12-month contract termination compensation, were never talked to Brown.
To hear so many terrible stories (far from all) of you and the great cause of changing the world with the boss from hell? Most geeks will give a definite answer. In our story yesterday about Tesla was born, if not the musk employees demanding and extraordinary execution, perhaps Tesla volume prenatal collapsed in 2008, the first prototype, the Model where there are now 3?
给“钢铁侠”马斯克打工是怎样一种体验？ - 马斯克,钢铁侠,特斯拉 - IT资讯
本文内容来自中信出版社4月20日即将上市的新书《硅谷钢铁侠：埃隆·马斯克的冒险人生》，由极客公园从书中篇章抽取整理而成。作者阿什利·万斯采访了众多在特斯拉和SpaceX公司工作过的员工，在这些员工眼中我们可以了解到工作状态下最真实的埃隆·马斯克。
严苛的暴君
马斯克曾用“吞着玻璃同时凝视深渊”来描述自己的创业生活。早在1999年，马斯克带领X.com与Confinity争夺网络支付市场时，他就以极端的工作时间著称。当时的员工说：“我们每天工作20个小时，而他工作23个小时。”
在特斯拉陷入危机的时候，他要求员工在周六周日依旧努力工作，并睡在桌子底下，直到项目完成。有员工对此不满，希望能有时间陪陪家人，马斯克就会说：“我们破产后，会有更多时间陪家人的。”
如果员工告诉他，做出某个选择是因为“之前一直都是这样做的”，他会马上被踢出会议室。
一个员工因为宝宝的出生而错过了一场活动，马斯克在邮件里把他骂得狗血淋头：“我们正在改变世界、改变历史，如果你不打算全力以赴，那你就别干了。”
马斯克就是这样一个严苛的“暴君”，高管们也经常在开会前打赌谁会挨骂。普通员工对马斯克的描述很多面化，他们尊敬他，理解他的苛刻，也认为他已经达到了刻薄的地步，让人感觉反复无常，每次和他见面都感觉可能被解雇。马斯克对达不到他标准的员工非常苛刻，他总是说：“如果你想解雇某人，就应该马上解雇，否则只会浪费彼此的时间。”
最终面试遭遇古怪问题
作为SpaceX的创始人，SpaceX的前1000名员工，包括门卫和技工，都是马斯克亲自面试的。
Space的标准面试题目是让工程师写500行以上的代码，进入最终面试环节的候选人，会要求完成一项特殊的任务，给马斯克写一篇文章，说明自己为什么想为SpaceX工作。如果候选人在面试中表现出色，并且写出了好的作文，他们获得的奖励就是有机会和马斯克面谈，虽然面试时间可能只有15秒至30秒。
面试刚开始的时候，马斯克可能还在写邮件和工作，不会讲太多的话。在聊天的时候，他会问一些古怪的问题，比如他一定会问的问题：
你站在地球表面，往南走1英里，往西走1英里，再往北走1英里，刚好回到原点，请问你在哪里？
大多数工程师立刻就能回答出：北极。马斯克会接着问“还有可能在哪儿？”就很少有人能回答出来了，马斯克会愉悦地和他们讲解这个题目，引用相关公式。他不怎么在乎对方是否能回答正确，他更关注的他们描述问题的方式和解决问题的方法。
邮件里不能有一个错字，缩写也不行
马斯克对邮件里的细微瑕疵也非常介怀，一旦他发现邮件里有词拼错，就会咬住不放，甚至干脆认为无法阅读。如果是营销人员在电子邮件里犯语法错误，会被直接要求走人。
马斯克会时不时地向全公司发送电子邮件，有时只是为了让大家知道某件事正在困扰他。其中比较著名的邮件是2010年5月发出，主题是“首字母缩写词真恶心”。在这封邮件中，他语气很粗暴地说：
除非得到我的批准，其他缩写词不能列入SpaceX的词汇表。例如，测试架不应该有“HTS”或“VTS”这样的称呼，这讨厌的缩写版本事实上比原词更费解……
马斯克希望所有的缩写词都要经过他的批准，这样的事必躬亲听上去非常滑稽，但它确实能让团队变得更加高效。从那以后，员工私下将缩写词政策称为“A.S.S Rule”（狗屁规定）。
千万不能说“做不到”
和马斯克长期共事的人都可以证实，在完工时间方面，他是一个彻头彻尾的疯子，他会假设一切顺利，制定出他能想到的最激进的时间表，然后假设每个人都可以更加勤奋地工作，以便完成生产进度。
有员工开玩笑说，马斯克或许会计算出敲出一行代码需要几秒，然后乘以他预期的最终软件包含的代码行数，然后预测一个软件项目完成所需的时间。而马斯克本人却说“我从不故意设定不可能实现的目标。”他认为，如果不这样，只会令拖延时间的情况变得不可控。
如果你告诉马斯克，他的要求是无法实现的，比如预算实在降不下来或者在截止日期前无法造出某个部件，他就会说：“好吧，这个项目与你无关了，从现在开始我是这个项目的CEO。在担任两家CEO的同时，你的工作也由我来做，但我可以完成。”更可怕的是，他不仅仅是说说而已！每次他解雇了某个人，都会接替那个人的工作，而无论是什么项目，他都能完成。
如果万一，你发现自己达不到马斯克的严格要求，不得不向他汇报一些坏消息，精明的工程师们会先竭尽所能找出可能的解决方案。一位员工总结：“万万不能一上来就告诉马斯克某件事做不了，他马上会把所有人轰出办公室。我们必须把利害关系一一列出并提供完美的方案，阐述完一切后等马斯克说了声『好的，谢谢』所有人才松一口气。”
有时，也很无情……
根据一些离职员工的说法，马斯克对待员工就像对待子弹——用完即扔。
最典型的一个例子是，他开除了玛丽·贝丝·布朗。布朗何许人也？她是忠心耿耿的在马斯克身边工作了12年的贴身秘书，每周在洛杉矶和硅谷之间穿梭，7*24小时地辛苦加班，同时安排马斯克在两家公司的日程，并负责公关工作，很多时候还得做出商业决定。简直就像是钢铁侠托尼·史塔克身边的佩珀·波茨。据说，她的办公桌就在马斯克的前面，每个要找马斯克的员工都会在她的桌前停留一会儿，如果贝丝·布朗示意摇头，表明马斯克此时心情不好，不是申请预算的好时机，大家就会识趣地离开。
钢铁侠不会开除Pepper Potts，但马斯克会。
起因是布朗向马斯克提出提升工资待遇，马斯克让她去休几周假，期间会承担她的工作，等布朗休假回来后，马斯克说不再需要她了，给了她12个月的解约赔偿金，后来再也没有和布朗说过话。
听了这么多可怕的故事（远远不是全部），你还愿意和这位地狱来的老板一起做改变世界伟大事业吗？相信大多数极客还是会给出肯定的答案。在我们昨天讲述的特斯拉诞生的故事里，如果不是马斯克对员工的严格要求以及非凡的执行力，也许特斯拉在2008年首款原型车实现量产前就倒闭了，哪里还会有如今的Model 3呢？