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Tesla Is the Hot Spot for Young Job Seekers

3 points by ryzvonusef 8y ago

ryzvonusef 8y ago
> Tesla’s stated mission of accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy appeals to many of its 45,000 workers, some of whom are willing to work 100-hour weeks and eschew the common perks of tech companies, such as free food. Instead, some employees say, they run on adrenaline, stock options and a shared passion with the company’s leader to change the world. > Kiran Karunakaran says he was making $80,000 a year at a Philadelphia electronics company when Tesla offered him $95,000 and stock options to become an engineer in 2015. Though Apple made him a $115,000 offer around the same time, he says, the 29-year-old Mr. Karunakaran took the Tesla job. He said the decision was a no-brainer. > Other Tesla employees said they have turned down offers from companies such as Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo and Uber Technologies Inc. that were 20% to 50% above their Tesla salaries. > “What really attracts young people to Tesla is instant gratification,” Mr. Karunakaran said. “You see these incredible things you’ve worked on come to fruition, on the road, in months,” he said. Mr. Karunakaran left Tesla in May after three years—one year shy of the full vesting of his stock options—to follow his wife to Seattle for her job. ---- > Anusha Atluri, a second-year M.B.A. student at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, spent the summer as an intern on Tesla’s Model 3 assembly line in Fremont. Partway through the summer, Ms. Atluri spotted a way to tweak a step in the manufacturing line that she thought might speed up production. She put together a PowerPoint presentation for the rest of the team and, encouraged by the response, she suggested following up the next week with management to discuss implementing the change. > “They were like, why not just try it tomorrow?” she said. The process changed the next day, and within a week the line was running more efficiently, she said.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
  Thanks for that, but I don’t think it qualifies as fair use unless your quoting to make comments. I think we should respect the wishes of original content creators to paywall their content.

3 points by ryzvonusef 8y ago

> Tesla’s stated mission of accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy appeals to many of its 45,000 workers, some of whom are willing to work 100-hour weeks and eschew the common perks of tech companies, such as free food. Instead, some employees say, they run on adrenaline, stock options and a shared passion with the company’s leader to change the world. > Kiran Karunakaran says he was making $80,000 a year at a Philadelphia electronics company when Tesla offered him $95,000 and stock options to become an engineer in 2015. Though Apple made him a $115,000 offer around the same time, he says, the 29-year-old Mr. Karunakaran took the Tesla job. He said the decision was a no-brainer. > Other Tesla employees said they have turned down offers from companies such as Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo and Uber Technologies Inc. that were 20% to 50% above their Tesla salaries. > “What really attracts young people to Tesla is instant gratification,” Mr. Karunakaran said. “You see these incredible things you’ve worked on come to fruition, on the road, in months,” he said. Mr. Karunakaran left Tesla in May after three years—one year shy of the full vesting of his stock options—to follow his wife to Seattle for her job. ---- > Anusha Atluri, a second-year M.B.A. student at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, spent the summer as an intern on Tesla’s Model 3 assembly line in Fremont. Partway through the summer, Ms. Atluri spotted a way to tweak a step in the manufacturing line that she thought might speed up production. She put together a PowerPoint presentation for the rest of the team and, encouraged by the response, she suggested following up the next week with management to discuss implementing the change. > “They were like, why not just try it tomorrow?” she said. The process changed the next day, and within a week the line was running more efficiently, she said.

TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
Thanks for that, but I don’t think it qualifies as fair use unless your quoting to make comments. I think we should respect the wishes of original content creators to paywall their content.