[treis]

I too don't understand it. Even reading just his side of the story it seems obvious that he got caught in a power struggle between SpaceX and Starlink. A struggle he lost and apparently a struggle he never knew he was in.

I also don't think he has the right attitude for a principle engineer. Junior engineers don't "take over" your roles. They take on the easy parts of projects so that you can focus on the hard stuff. Part of being a senior engineer is training and enabling more junior engineers. A huge part of his job is to eliminate the "bus factor".

[bumby]

That was my original thought as well. But as the article went on, it was made clear that he wasn't part of the process of creating a team where he can delegate. He was later told he wasn't in a management-track position, which seems at odds with the idea that they wanted him to be leading a team of junior engineers.

[treis]

Yeah, that was some manager in Starlink empire building. Once that sort of thing starts you either end up on the winning side or leave.

[tiahura]

It seemed the decimation of my role through the assignments of others to my tasks was coming from managers in the Starlink organization

That was my take away as well - and again, not to mention the fact that we're getting a one-sided accounting of the facts.

[startupsfail]

He has a right attitude. Top management is clearly failing at the job of being respectful and reasonable manager for him, so he should fire that management. And let them fail.