- First I wanna talk about,
Tesla apparently is a hotspot
for young job seekers.
This, first off, coming
from The Wall Street Journal
is interesting.
But also I was pretty shocked by this.
So the story is despite long hours
and a frenetic pace, a job
at Elon Musk's electric car
company is a career breaker
many idealistic engineers
find impossible to pass up.
So Tesla received more job
and internship applications
than any other company on Handshake,
a student career services app
in 2016 to 2017 academic year.
In 2017 to 2018 it was
only narrowly beat out
by JPMorgan Chase, not sure
where that's going but okay.
Seems to be a lot of young
people who want demanding,
well paid career that also
fulfills their idealism.
Kind of the concept of,
you know, when you invest
investing with a conscience kind of thing
where you want to be working on something.
As someone I'm right on the cusp of
that millennial generation, I certainly
have made career choices that were aimed
at something that I believed in,
something that wasn't
just a means to an end.
And so it seems, you know, to be
that's likely one of the big reasons
why Tesla's getting so
many people applying.
So they're recruiting a lot
from the top engineering schools
like Worcester, Polytechnic Institute
and Carnegie Mellon, and
not just the Ivy Leagues.
As well as, you know, I also
interviewed a lot of folks
that obviously worked
in, previously worked in
a lot of the big tech companies,
you don't necessarily have
to even have a college degree
if you're really good at what you do.
Some of the things Tesla's
obviously recruiting for
require kind of a really deep education
around some of the engineering stuff,
but if you're on the software side
it's one of those things where
you can really kind of pave your own way
just by showing what you can
do in the open source world
as well as just online and all that.
So really interesting stuff,
I hope this means again
that Tesla continues to
innovate and increase
that innovation because
that truly is what matters.
On Glassdoor which is a site
where people review companies,
you see that they have a 3.4
rating which isn't great.
Everyone I know that talked
about Glassdoor though
says that you kind of have
to pet their ego a little bit
in order to get a high rating,
that's why, you know, it's very few times
that people actually get
to be the top employer
despite having tremendous reviews
and stuff like a Facebook
or Google or one of those.
Now one of things about
something like Glassdoor,
so if you're a young engineer
looking to get into this
and you see that you go oh.
Know that a very large
percentage of the people
that work at Tesla are kind
of in the blue collar space,
they're in manufacturing,
they're turning dials, right,
they're cranking stuff out.
It's a very purpose filled work
but it's not like being at one of these
silicon valley start ups.
Tesla is kind of software
side are, you know,
they are very much in the
get it done mentality.
You know much more like
a Netflix than a Facebook
or a Google with these
kind of lavish opulence
in terms of like restaurants
and free food and all that.
So Tesla is a place, seems
to be where you wanna go
to make a difference and
I think that's great.
You know, personally that's why I'm here,
that's why I do this,
is because I wanna share
what we find by looking at the data
about this company and others
that are really trying to move
us towards a better future.
So let me know what you
guys think about that
in the comments, I'm
curious if anyone here
has applied to Tesla, what
they're experience was like.
Let me know in the
comments there down below.
