正文翻譯

What is it like to work with/for Elon Musk?

和馬斯克一起工作是什么感覺?

評論翻譯

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.

我在他的兩家公司工作過，太陽能城市(now Tesla Solar現(xiàn)在的特斯拉太陽能)和特斯拉汽車。我的經(jīng)歷不是很好……當(dāng)他正式接管太陽能城市時，我正在那里工作(在此之前，他已經(jīng)是一個大股東)。與前一年相比，當(dāng)時的銷售略有下滑，但在他正式接手后不久，銷售就進(jìn)入了死亡螺旋。埃隆覺得自己并不喜歡太陽能“電池板”的美感，決定迅速轉(zhuǎn)向太陽能“屋頂”?！拔蓓敗比栽谠O(shè)計階段。他決定開始收取太陽能屋頂?shù)难航?，并停止推廣太陽能電池板。他還決定解散銷售團(tuán)隊(80%)。他想要推動在線銷售(就像特斯拉汽車一樣)。這種銷售模式并不奏效，銷量迅速下滑。太陽能屋頂非常美觀，產(chǎn)品成熟，不管安裝的方式如何，這個價格對于大眾來說仍然是高得令人望而卻步。他還想把他的電池推廣到家庭使用。這很好，這也是一個很好的產(chǎn)品，但它通常是一個大型太陽能系統(tǒng)的補(bǔ)充部分……所以，如果你不賣太陽能系統(tǒng)，那么你就賣不出很多電池。自從他兩年前上任以來，太陽能城市已經(jīng)進(jìn)行了大規(guī)模的裁員和解雇。成千上萬辛勤工作的人因為他糟糕的商業(yè)決策失去了工作(50%)。這方面的消息并不多，關(guān)于他在特斯拉汽車公司裁員的消息也不多見(他們也進(jìn)行了大規(guī)模裁員)。我認(rèn)識的在那里工作的人不多，但我認(rèn)識的幾個人都說，現(xiàn)在的公司已經(jīng)今不如昔了，士氣也一直低落。你們也沒怎么聽說過。你聽到的都是馬斯克下一個……最新的、最偉大的冒險。為什么會這樣？正是由于精心協(xié)調(diào)的營銷，以及對他的“品牌”的操縱……
我想說的是，我在那里工作時，為所有員工提供的內(nèi)部培訓(xùn)都非常出色。APP程序(我們使用了很多)很好地完成了我們的工作，讓員工們能夠高效地工作。

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?

還值得注意的的是......
剛開始的時候，我們有125多名員工在我的辦公室工作。當(dāng)我被解雇時，還剩17名員工。這些員工大部分由兩個安裝團(tuán)隊組成，一個人執(zhí)行少數(shù)特定的辦公室功能，一個經(jīng)理和一個行政助理，以及倉庫中的幾個人。
在我看來，馬斯克所謂的創(chuàng)新商業(yè)模式和“愿景”應(yīng)當(dāng)受到批評和審視。在我任職期間(不到兩年)，我只知道一個員工有一輛特斯拉。坦白地說，那是因為在那里工作的人都買不起。我在數(shù)百名員工中遇到了少數(shù)幾個在屋頂上安裝了太陽能，還有一個我知道的員工使用了家用特斯拉電池……作為那里的一名員工，真的沒有購買任何產(chǎn)品的動機(jī)，特別是汽車!如果你買了一個太陽能系統(tǒng)，你可以得到1000美元的折扣，但你必須等待，直到有安裝的檔期。住宅太陽能系統(tǒng)的平均價格，即使在回扣/激勵之后，通常也在2.5萬到3萬美元。根據(jù)尺寸的不同，它的價格也迅速上升。大多數(shù)員工都買不起。
我得到的報酬比承諾的少。他們向我展示了和其他人一樣的薪資等級。但我從來沒有機(jī)會拿到那么多錢。你可能會花上70-80個小時甚至更多的時間工作，但薪酬與銷量直接掛鉤(我并不是銷售崗位)，這里有個普遍的常識是，銷量下降，員工的薪水就會下降。
我沒有看到任何馬斯克控股公司的員工提供的第一手資料。我所看到的，作為答案，都是從我所謂的“馬斯克宣傳機(jī)器”剪切和粘貼過來的……
他/他們話講得很好，但除了成為一個億萬富翁之外，他還取得了什么成就呢?

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'.

伊隆從不容忍任何技術(shù)廢話。他非常注重工作的完整性，非常專業(yè)，但對表現(xiàn)不佳的員工容忍度很低。我被告知，他不太在意你的人格缺陷，只要你能主動迅速地完成任務(wù)。
SpaceX公司有句話:“不管你工作有多努力，總有人比你更努力”……你可以猜到說的是誰。
引用我朋友的話:“伊隆是大樓里是一個強(qiáng)大的動力，為每個人樹立了文化，這讓你為在那里工作感到興奮?！?br>總而言之，在SpaceX，這聽起來是一種非常緊張、鼓舞人心和專注的運營方式，擁有世界上最聰明的一些人，其中很大一部分人年齡在25歲左右或30歲出頭。

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.

在特斯拉的時候，我并沒有和伊隆直接合作過，但我和我的團(tuán)隊有幾次與他會面，討論問題。
最令我印象深刻的是，他很快就意識到自己想要實現(xiàn)的目標(biāo)，以及我們面臨的挑戰(zhàn)。他也從來沒有被我們的挑戰(zhàn)嚇倒。他似乎并不擔(dān)心技術(shù)細(xì)節(jié)。他總是有辦法把復(fù)雜的問題簡單化。他從不粗魯或不專業(yè)，但他從不害怕打斷或質(zhì)疑一個主張。