SpaceX & Tesla Top List Of "Meaningful" Tech Company Jobs

[bananas]

https://cleantechnica.com/2016/03/15/spacex-tesla-top-list-of-meaningful-tech-company-jobs/

SpaceX & Tesla Top List Of “Meaningful” Tech Company Jobs

March 15th, 2016 by James Ayre

Originally published on EV Obsession.

Elon Musk’s companies Tesla Motors and SpaceX are at the top of the list when it comes to the (self-reported) “meaningfulness” of the work done by employees — as well as being at the top of the list when it comes to stressful work environments, and low “early career compensation” — according to a new report from PayScale.

The reference to “low” early career compensation (a reference to the median income for employees with no more than 5 years experience) is of course quite subjective — despite being well below the figures for Facebook or LinkedIn, the money on offer from Tesla and SpaceX is certainly not bad money.

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The San Francisco Chronicle provides more:

A strong urge to make the world a better place drives many employees, even when they’re working in high-stress and relatively low-paying jobs, according to a report released Wednesday by the company PayScale, which aggregates pay and benefits packages for millions of workers.

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…SpaceX and Tesla, both headed by Elon Musk, did the best job fostering a sense of meaning for their employees. While early-career staff were among the lowest paid and most stressed in the study, between 89 and 92 percent said that they feel their work is making the world a better place. That compares with an average of 57 percent of workers who feel that way at the other firms surveyed.

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[Warpy]

1. They'd be exciting places to work now

Give them ten years and they'll be overrun by eager beaver b-school grads and just as stodgy and oppressive to workers as every other corporation out there, with most of the fun jobs shipped to China or India.

[Politicalboi]

2. Work for the man who pays prisoners

Less than a dollar an hour for Solar City. Elon Musk is showing us his 1%.