> When I'm looking for jobs, my main criteria is market cap / number of employees, and Tesla (as most startups/small companies) was very bad before the stock price went up. Now with high stock prices Tesla can afford to pay market rates (even if it's in stock).
Of course I care, it's just in my experience it's much easier for a company to provide any kind of benefits when the company has money for employees.
Before 2008 when I was working at Google, we were just getting more and more fun stuff all the time, and it seemed like it's never ending. I was together with about 200 people in the Zurich office.
After the stock price went down, although we just had a hiring stop, the food got worse, the bonuses got smaller, and later every new year more and more people came, the stock went up, but the benefits got worse every year until the point where you have to stand in a queue to go to toilet if you are a male.
I think Google is still a great place to work at, but very far from what it was 13 years ago.
Sure, but having worked in a number of different environments and having a family, a work culture that is willing to support me is very important. Tesla and SpaceX don't seem to have that at all.
Sure, I'm also too old to go to Tesla, but if I would want a great carreer, really change the world (not just talk about it) and not care about having a private life, I would seriously consider going there.
At the same time Zurich is small, and many more men go to work there than women, so dating was so hard that I didn't have a real private life anyways.
You don't care about the work culture at all?