Lithuanian 30+ year-old shitposter who works as a programmer.

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Cake day: 12. Juni 2023

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  • I have worked at this company three years ago. I left when it started going downhill. I received my last paycheck and two weeks later my former colleagues didn’t get their salaries.

    I don’t believe that it was COVID that broke them, but gross mismanagement from incompetence from their executives, which were also overpaid and overrepresented in the company structure. They also lacked any experience working in automotive field and failed to attract experienced engineering talent into the company.

    The engineers were underpaid and overworked in comparison. A handful of experienced automotive people cut have cut off the development time by years.

    They also had to innovate to attract money and raise stock value. However, to build reliable busses, a minimum viable e-bus would have been much better, because they could have learned what works and what doesn’t without spending millions on redesigning various parts several times.

    They used a superlight composite material to shave off tons of weight, but that material proved too stiff as a bus body and a nightmare to work with. Their solution ended up being even more of said material.