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Meanwhile at Tesla ..

Meanwhile at Tesla employees have become millionaires off of stock options. Crappy place to work for other reasons, but pretty much everybody gets RSU's.

There's a big difference between stock options and RSUs. Nobody became millionaires off RSUs unless they started at Tesla <2018. I'm not convinced everyone at Tesla is offered options.

Take this as the heresay as it is, but pretty much everybody at Tesla gets at least $20K in RSU's. If you got that pre-IPO and kept it this long it's worth more than a million. But even if it doesn't appreciate at all, over 4 years that's a similar payout to the MB payout referenced in the article.

> If you got that pre-IPO

Do you realize that Tesla has gone from 1k to 100k employees in the meantime?

The people working in the tesla factories, the line workers, are millionares? Get RSUs?

employees are working on cars that are competitive, whose price are becoming more affordable and that fit people's expectation (cheap to maintain, highly efficient, compatible with a sustainable future)?

I'd prefer to work at a company that will hire en masse in the coming years, than at one that's rich on paper but prefer to pay dividends and one-time bonus while having no reasonable roadmap for the future of mobility.

I hear the Qataris and Saudis are paying well, too.

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