I understand your point, but if he even gets a fraction of the talent they have to turn down at SpaceX or Tesla he'll do just fine.
Still a lot of Musk fanboys.
And it's still a large, complex, big-name Tech company; experience with working on problems at that scale could open doors later, regardless of who is calling the shots at the top.
There are lots of hungry developers around that world that would kill to work 12/7 and take home 200k USD