🔥Êxodo na xAI: Ex-Funcionário Expõe Cultura Corporativa Tóxica
Um ex-funcionário publicou um relato detalhado sobre sua passagem pela xAI, a empresa de IA do Elon Musk. Na entrevista e onboarding, fizeram questão de falar sobre 'tomar iniciativa' e 'estrutura plana'. Na prática, foi bem diferente. --- Ele conta que usou seus seguidores no X para coletar ideias de como melhorar o Grok — John Carmack até retweetou. No dia seguinte, acordou com email ameaçador do supervisor dizendo que ele 'tinha errado', foi obrigado a deletar tudo e teve a conta suspensa. Segundo ele, 'encheram a xAI de gerentes médios e burocratas. Era um dos lugares mais corporativos que já trabalhei.' --- O timing é revelador: outro funcionário anunciou seu último dia na empresa, e Elon admitiu que 'a xAI não foi construída certo da primeira vez' e está sendo reconstruída do zero. Aparentemente, os problemas foram escondidos dele até recentemente.
Here is an xAI story. When I was first hired (low level) by xAI, I was extremely excited. I greatly admired Elon and what Grok could be. I have a pretty cool AI following here on X. Some big names see my stuff, including Elon himself (at the time). Lex, Beff, Andreessen, Aravind, many others. During the interview and onboarding for xAI, they made a *big deal* about wanting people who "take initiative" and think outside the box. Ok... So, some of the biggest names in tech follow me on X. I decided to ask for ideas and feedback on how Grok (then still early at version 2) could be improved. I asked my followers on X for the best "how can we make Grok awesome?" ideas, and was going to collect them (organized by Grok himself) into a big report for my boss(es) and ultimately, Elon. (xAI makes a big deal about how it's a "flat structure" also. You're supposed to be empowered to act on good ideas.) Well, my post got way more attention than I expected - great! Ideas to improve Grok poured in! I built a script to collect and sort all these great ideas to make xAI's core product better. John Carmack (personal friend of Elon, creator of Doom, id software, legend) retweeted it. Carmack has 1M followers. There were so many great ideas on how to improve Grok! I was collecting them and excited. Until....... I woke up the next day to a threatening email from my main supervisor* at xAI, telling me I had messed up, that I was NEVER to ask for ideas to improve Grok ever again, that it wasn't my job (I thought our job was to improve Grok.) They suspended my account on X. They never explained why. It was obviously related to my post about improving Grok. I was told to delete those posts which had gone viral. I had to delete all the hundreds (thousands?) of genuinely good ideas for improving Grok that had poured in by users on X, because it stepped on someone's toes. It made me confused and sad. Incidents like this happened often, where xAI employees would come in full of excitement and enthusiasm, and would have it stomped out by managers who hated ideas. They filled xAI with middle managers and busybodies. It was one of the most DEI and corporate-y places I've ever worked. I came in wanting Elon and xAI to win and left just sad. *That manager is gone, for what it's worth. Everyone I knew at xAI is gone.
— @BenjaminDEKR View on X