According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple has made a major push to recruit talent from the electric carmaker, offering massive bonuses and significant salary bumps for those willing to come to work in Cupertino.
Musk said Apple’s attempts have not been successful. I do have a lot of respect for Musk and the work he’s done.
Sounds like I should try to get a job/career @ Telsa and then get a better job at Apple and then push for enterprise – OS X Server, VMs, etc… and get fired and then make a LOT of money! (and also build a better car entertainment/navigation AI – WHILE I’m at it!).
Finally, Apple and Tesla should join. I mean, they have so much in common. A joint venture would create a great synergy effect. They both change the world by making better products, relying on design, quality and innovation. Tesla Model S .. and coming vehicles are mobile devices at the best sense of the word. So, why not pushing together in that direction. I´d love to see that.. and the results.
As if it was that simple to merge two different corporate cultures.
Nah, I think Apple prefers profitability.
I’ve got to wonder about this. If it’s true, why poke a stick in Apple’s eye? If they’re really not getting very many of your people, why bad-mouth the 8000lb tech gorilla in the room, at least in public? More importantly, the current price of oil is about $50 a barrel, and futures contracts for next year are only $61. Barring some unforeseen catastrophe, it’s hard to imagine gasoline going above $3.00/gallon anytime soon. That’s TERRIBLE for Tesla. I think someone is dissembling.
Who read after the first clause of the first sentence?
“Swatch Group AG plans to start selling a smartwatch within the next three months”
3 months? SRSLY? Unless they’ve had a Skunk Works dedicated to this project for years, I think Swatch’s “smartwatch” may be a nice watch, but I doubt it will be very smart.
Wrong thread?
In the valley, as everywhere else on the planet, every good company is always on the prowl for talent; it is a truism that talent is the most limited of resources.
So I see this story as two things:
Reflection of reality. Indeed, in the IT industry job hopping is not unusual think of all the Apple guys that moved on to other companies. Think of all the other talent Apple has hired for other initiatives, like Watch, in the past few years. As a contrast, if ine looks at the more mundane mechanical aspects of the Tesla vehicles, I think one will see that much of this talent was poached from Tesla’s auto OEM competitors. Looking back to the Detroit auto industry of the last century, it wasn’t unusual to find talent “moving across the street” to the next OEM (think Knudsen Jr., Delorean, Teague, Engel, and that most prolific and successful -both career and impact on the industry-wise- of movers, Bob Lutz.).
Talking about how Tesla has been able to lure talent from Apple or how hard Apple tries to lure talent from Tesla helps put a halo on the team members and sheen on the operation.
So this is a dog bites man kind of story.
The lost lede in such a story is how these companies run their talent conveyor belts, to attract, train and promote talent so that when the oft inevitable and sometimes even desireable defections occur, there is a pool of qualified talent already in the organization ready to move into the vacated slot.
Nah. Elon Musk has always been this arrogant. But he also has an unparalleled track record. Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX – the range that his mind has is incredible. His arrogance is part of the charm that attracts top talent. Not for everyone. But there are many who would follow a proven leader like that to (in this case) Mars and back.