The Brutal Truth About Working for Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk

15 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "The Brutal Truth About Working for Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk" (uploaded 2023-11-15). The excerpt is a monologue (single speaker labeled SPEAKER A) discussing startup/tech corporate culture, describing how leaders like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk favor extremely demanding, in-office, "hardcore" employees and how some companies explicitly seek that type of work ethic while accepting that it won't be a fit for many people.

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Most people aren't going to like to hear this, and it's okay. Most people don't want to work at these types of companies. But I was listening to a podcast today just talking about how the way Jeff Bezos works—he's calling you on the weekend, he's having you come to his house on the weekend. He's an absolute animal. People use the word animal; they use the word savage. They've gotten rid of a lot of the people, and they only want animals. They only want people that work in the office. When he's on the interviews, he's like, "I want you working from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m." Oh, you don't want to? You don't want to relocate? That's totally cool. Not for you, right? And then you hear about Elon. It's like, "Oh yeah, we only want people that are hardcore." And if you're not hardcore, then like this is not the right fit. And that's okay because that is their culture. More. Companies now are going to this more of this, hey, this is how we do things. We want to be this way and we're not going to tolerate how other people want to tell us how to run our company.