"Bier described a "very flat organization" with lots of individual contributors reporting directly to Musk himself. There are very few managers, Bier said. "Everyone has an incredible amount of agency," Bier said. "We come up with an idea, we build it in a week, and it's out." Bier also said that Musk was "deep in the weeds." That's a feat for an executive who runs multiple companies (and once a government agency) at the same time."
""He does weekly reviews basically with every engineer at the company," Bier said. "You have one or two slides, you present what you got done that week, he gives feedback." While some social media commenters expressed skepticism that every engineer received a weekly review, Musk is clearly hands-on - as evidenced by another xAI employee's podcast appearance. Sulaiman Ghori worked on xAI's Macrohard team."
Teams at X are very flat, with many individual contributors reporting directly to Elon Musk and very few managers. Engineers receive large amounts of agency to conceive and ship ideas rapidly, often building features within a week. Musk remains deeply involved in engineering details and conducts weekly reviews with engineers across the company, receiving one or two slides and offering feedback on progress. Expectations include long hours and intense work ahead of major launches. Some observers expressed skepticism that every engineer gets weekly reviews. Another xAI employee described similar flat structures and recounted a wager with Musk over setting up a GPU rack that earned the employee a Cybertruck.
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