According to foreign media 9 To 5 Mac, about 46 Tesla employees have been dug away by Apple in 2018. In the face of Apple's 'crazy digging', Tesla responded that the other party has more than 100. Times.
The US financial website CNBC conducted an in-depth analysis of the 'digger' between Apple and Tesla. The website reported that from the beginning of 2018, about 46 Tesla employees have switched to Apple.
Earlier this month, it was reported that Doug Field, Apple's former vice president of hardware engineering, returned to Apple after a brief tenure at Tesla.
While other employees are not as famous as Doug Field, employees who have switched from Tesla to Apple include engineers, supply chain managers, interns, and employees who have been fired by Tesla.
According to data from the workplace social networking site, from the beginning of 2018, at least 46 of the employees recruited by Apple have worked in Tesla, 8 of whom are engineering interns.
One important thing to note is that not all employees hired from Tesla are involved in the 'Titan' car project, and many also develop monitors, optics and battery technology for Apple.
This year, Apple also hired employees from Autoslot Automated Automated Pilot Systems, Quality Assurance (QA), Powertrain, Mechanical Design and Firmware Engineers, as well as several global supply chain managers from Tesla. Some employees are directly from Tesla. They quit to Apple, while others have been fired or dismissed by Tesla before joining Apple.
CNBC quoted a number of current and former Tesla employees as saying that many of Tesla's engineers fell sharply after learning that Field had moved to Apple. However, before Field left, colleagues who voluntarily left Tesla were more than before. More years.
However, Tesla does not agree with this statement, the company said in a statement that in the past year, the probability of employees voluntarily leaving the company has decreased.
In addition, the automaker also pointed out that Apple is '100 times more financially powerful, so it is difficult to compete with Apple in terms of compensation.
Tesla said: 'We hope that the future of our employees will be better. It is not easy to work in Tesla. Apple's money is 100 times that of ours, so of course they can pay more. We are working with some traditional car companies. Extremely difficult competition, last year these companies' car production is 100 times ours, so this is a very difficult task. We don't even have the money to advertise, there is no money to ask the spokesperson or offer a lot of discounts, so we have to rely on the product Quality to survive. '
In terms of compensation, many people familiar with the matter said that Apple paid technicians, software and manufacturing engineers 1 to 1.5 times the salary of Tesla. High salary is very attractive to Bay Area personnel with high consumption.
An engineer dismissed by Tesla in June revealed that Apple may also give employees some stock options. Apple's stock options are more attractive than Tesla stock options in difficult times. To compensate for the higher Silicon Valley. Cost of living, many Tesla employees sold their stock options as soon as possible.