AjaxFC1900

They hired a lot of my friend, they do over work them, and Musk gets all the credit, and I hate that . . . . but people keep applying at record rates.

Also leaving! At Virgin Galactic they have so many SpaceX refugees that they made shirts, saying "I left the eX for a Virgin" (using the SpaceX font)

Do you think SpaceX would still be alive 5/10 years from now? In my opinion they already went through all the people who are both "book smart" as well as "street smart" , they are now hiring people who are technically competent but gullible as far as PR and cult of personality are concerned , HR people are offering engineers a lower pay for longer hours so that they would be able to put Musk/SpaceX in their CV , the turnover rate is also extremely high.

As an engineer would you be bothered by the fact that you'd be doing all the work and heavy lifting only to have the CEO take all the credit , money and status? Do you think that private companies are even a good solution as far as space exploration goes? Many of those companies don't seem to understand that space exploration is a marathon not a 100m sprint.

Bernie says

From an external point of view I get the impression that Japanese companies are much less PR driven than american ones...they are much more about substance and only talk about their products to the general public just few weeks before the release , plus they don't do grandiose pretentious 2 hrs presentations and CEOs are still businessmen and not public figures....also population doesn't seem to buy into cults like in US...do I stand correct ?