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3. For what it is worth.

I have a good friend who is an aerospace engineer in CA.
He is 52, has worked for the same company for 25 years.

Lat time I visited he were talking about engineering, engines, liquid fuel, solid fuel, aircraft, rocket, space shuttle--anything I could get him to talk about. Just fascinating.
When SpaceX and Elon Musk's name came up, along with Tesla, he just about went ballistic. He said Musk hires the youngest cheapest engineers he can find. If they don't like the working conditions, have any complaints about anything, suggestions that maybe something in a design isn't safe, they are gone.
He felt Musk is just all about the bottom line, control and power... Etc etc.
My friend says he (my friend) has forgotten more about REAL engineering than these young 'stamped out' engineers, as he calls them, will ever know.

Now, I have no idea if what he says is accurate or not. But I found it eye opening.