Apple Hired Scores of Ex-Tesla Employees This Year (cnbc.com)

According to CNBC, citing current and former Tesla employees and LinkedIn, Apple has hired scores of employees from Tesla since late 2017, including manufacturing, security and software engineers, as well as supply chain experts. The report mentions that they're hiring Tesla employees not just for the company's Project Titan self-driving car project, but for its other products too. From the report: In 2018 so far, LinkedIn data shows Apple has hired at least 46 people who worked at Tesla directly before joining the consumer electronics juggernaut. Eight of these were engineering interns. This year Apple has also hired former Tesla Autopilot, QA, Powertrain, mechanical design and firmware engineers, and several global supply chain managers. Some employees joined directly from Tesla, while others had been dismissed or laid off before joining Apple. Some ex-Tesla employees who joined Apple this year have not yet updated their public social media profiles with their new career info. That includes Apple's most noteworthy hire, Doug Field, Tesla's former Senior Vice President of Engineering. Tesla disputes CNBC's report, saying that voluntary attrition has decreased by one-third over the last twelve months, and that it has recently added talent from Apple and other companies. Regarding competition with Apple for talent, a Tesla spokesperson said, "We wish them well. Tesla is the hard path. We have 100 times less money than Apple, so of course they can afford to pay more. We are in extremely difficult battles against entrenched auto companies that make 100 times more cars than we did last year, so of course this is very hard work."

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Re:What Tesla is saying

[Anonymous Coward]

Elon doesn’t sleep on that couch. He takes week long vacations then lies to the media saying he hasn’t had a vacation in years.

Re:What Tesla is saying

[Rei]

The very article you linked says things like "The Tesla CEO has sacrificed sleep and worked into the wee hours on the factory floor, against the conventional wisdom of mental-health advocates and CEO coaches".

Nobody has said that Elon hasn't had a vacation in years. He very publicly went to Israel with his kids early this year, and posted photos from it. He hasn't taken more than a week off at a time in years. He basically goes through long bursts with little sleep up until specific deadlines, then gets away for a couple days, a couple times per year. The only time off since the Israel trip was his brother's three-day wedding in Spain, arriving in the morning on the same day as it started - as confirmed by the flight records. There was a several hour stopover in Belfast on the way back.

Numerous people at the factory, both on and off the record, have confirmed that he does sleep on that couch.