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Quite a few of my chemical engineering friends at Berkeley have interned at Tesla in their battery cell division. Their laboratory also regularly partners with
by lawrenceyan 7y ago
Quite a few of my chemical engineering friends at Berkeley have interned at Tesla in their battery cell division. Their laboratory also regularly partners with our Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for various research projects. It's a pretty robust operation actually, though I doubt most people would know about it unless they were in academia or affiliated with the research universities involved.
Happy overall that my friends don't have to choose between their morals or making money working in the oil industry now that battery chemistry is the more lucrative alternative.
- dba7dba 7y agoOne thing I learned while reading on HN is that there is never ever any kind of job posting from battery companies. There is much much secrecy about what the battery companies are doing (for obvious reasons). Due to this, they contact Masters/Phd student directly for possible job offers based on research papers and/or word of mouth. They supposedly do not post any job postings.
- lawrenceyan 7y agoMakes sense. Most people I know usually work during the school year / summer as research assistants under a professor in their lab before going on to intern somewhere. Unlike with computer science, with more hands on type of sciences like chemistry, I'm sure having some lab experience is pretty important if you want to be a meaningful contributor during your internship. I don't know much about how job postings online work, but quite a few companies come recruit during the school year, and all of the events are open to everyone as long as you're a student. So I'm not sure it's necessarily as closed off as you're making it out to be with having to be contacted on an individual basis.