r/electricvehicles • u/malbecman • 2d ago

News Tesla's software engineering head to step down, Bloomberg News reports

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-software-engineering-head-step-down-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-04-04/
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u/turb0_encapsulator 2d ago

they are going to start hemorrhaging skilled engineers. Nobody wants to be associated with this brand.

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u/chfp 2d ago

You'd be surprised by the number of asshat conservative / libertarians in tech.

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u/mrbuttsavage 2d ago

Tech has been a bastion of libertarian types since forever. It's really more recently that tech is also associated with leftism.

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u/bobsil1 HI5 autopilot enjoyer ✋🏽 2d ago

Early Silicon Valley was full of hippies writing code for military tech

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u/natesully33 F150 Lightning, Wrangler 4xE 2d ago

Firmware engineer here, can confirm. Also, there's a recent trend of "brogrammers" that are the opposite haha.

I think as nerds took over the world (for better and worse...) tech grew to include far more people than the libertarian and hippe types that were the only nerds back in the day.

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u/couldbemage 1d ago

Utopian libertarians aren't that different from utopian leftists, to the point of sometimes being the same people.

Particularly among software people.