It’s a balance. Tesla employees are not having a good time, I can tell you from first hand experience. You’ll make reasonable money but it’s not really a life worth living with 12 hour days and extreme stress. Atleast the options made me rich so maybe it was worth it?
Having a product people desire and doing at excellent job of marketing without actually spending marketing dollars. But this was back when I was there and Elon wasn’t crazy and actually adored.