SpaceX worker reveals a brutal company motto helped him survive all-nighters working for Elon Musk

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November 10, 2017 2:06 PM

A former SpaceX employee talked about the culture of working long hours for Elon Musk.

A former SpaceX employee wrote a Quora post about what it's like to work for Elon Musk.
His workday was often more than 12 hours.
Employees used the phrase "You are your own slave driver" to talk about the motivation to work long hours.

Notorious workaholic Elon Musk is so tied to the officesleep on the floor

So it should come as no surprise that employees at his companies also work long hours.

"I frequently did work 12+ hour days and pulled many all-nighters at the office," former SpaceX A phrase we threw around a lot was, 'You are your own slave driver.'"

The culture at the company included working far in excess of the normal 40-hour work week.

"We would sometimes joke and say,What're you, working part time?', when someone was leaving 'early' at like 7 or hadonlyput in a 50–60 hour week," Boehm wrote.

But despite the heavy workload, Boehm said the culture to work around the clock was precipitated by employees, not Musk.

Read Boehm's full post about working at SpaceX »

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