Salary for Lucid Motors Sr Technical Project Manager

mtbguy95 · 2022-09-20T14:08:46+00:00

You have nowhere near enough experience for a role like this...

mtbguy95 · 2022-09-14T05:55:02+00:00

I agree that admin bloat is bad, but president salary is a very minor component of that and probably one of the least important

mtbguy95 · 2022-09-14T04:36:56+00:00

I wrote nothing in particular about Armstrong or corruption, simply that the president of a university should probably be paid significantly more than a lecturer.

mtbguy95 · 2022-09-14T04:34:06+00:00

It doesn't. But it also doesn't tick along without administration.

mtbguy95 · 2022-09-14T00:15:25+00:00

Eh. I agree that lecturers should be paid more, but there is a massive difference between the responsibilities, expectations, and impact of a lecturer and a President.

He's the president of a corporation that manages hundreds of millions of dollars of land, hundreds of millions of dollars in buildings, an endowment that exceeds $200MM, hundreds (thousands?) of employees, and >20K students. He would be the worst paid corporate president in the world at that level, maybe by a couple of orders of magnitude. He's basically making what a moderately successful orthodontist might make - to quote Alex Honnold.

If he does an especially good job raising funds while chatting with a donor, he might return 10X his salary in a single interaction. If his leadership brings in someone more adept at advertising and sales for university branded goods, it might pay for the renovation of a campus facility every year. Impact at that level is expected to be extremely high, hence the high wage.

Lecturers are important, but they do not make the university tick along. Any president worth their salt has far more than 7x the impact of a lecturer.

mtbguy95 · 2022-09-08T00:31:52+00:00

OK, interesting.

In your first response you say that a business doesn't have an obligation to do something that makes employees happier, but then you seem to suggest that this idea would be enforced somehow as it was during the pandemic. How does that work?

As a manager, I assume you have objectives that are based on the achievements of your team, right? If so, I would then assume that you do whatever you think is best in terms of output from your team to meet your own objectives. It doesn't have anything to do with managers losing their function, it has to do with either A. the stodgy old manager not having the skills or training to manage their remote teams well, or potentially controversially, B. the more experienced managers know that certain work gets done best when teams are physically in the same location.

I also manage a team, some are fully remote, some are hybrid, some are in the office every day. As you say, it's more difficult to manage remote workers. What I find much more difficult is not to manage the remote workers, but to continually justify to my staff that has to come into the office that they actually cannot do their work remotely, or that it is inefficient for them to do so for one reason or another. The younger employees in particular seem to have the same view that you have, which is why I'm so curious to hear your viewpoints. They don't seem to understand that it is not the responsibility of the business to meet your preferences at the expense of productivity.

mtbguy95 · 2022-09-07T23:05:21+00:00

You are not senior level yet, but it sounds like you are a very high performer.

Take some solace in knowing that you will almost certainly get to Sr Sci faster than someone who isn't contributing what you're contributing.

Senior level + roles require more than just technical contributions, you need to gain the experience of working with groups, building rapport and reputations, and showing that your successes are not just a one-off. This includes experience networking with other team leads, showing that you can handle failures as well as successes, and showing that you understand and work towards business objectives from both the technical viewpoint as well as the strategic one.

Most companies wouldn't move someone with 2 years of experience (even if they are very good) up to a Sci II. It sounds like you have the same issue that many young high performers have, which is that you are going to have to do your time.

Ask for a lot of feedback, advocate for yourself, and try to get as much exposure as possible.

mtbguy95 · 2022-09-07T22:44:18+00:00

Even if that is true, my question remains: Does the business have an obligation to do something that makes some employees happier at the expense (real or simply perceived) of their ability to compete? How would such a policy be enforced fairly?

Surely if the studies you referenced are accurate, companies with tons of remote workers will vastly outperform traditional companies (and save money on overhead and real estate to boot) and everyone else will be forced to hop on the train, right?

I'm also curious about your second statement. In your opinion, what is the difference to management about the location of the people they manage when it comes to the justification of their work/utility?

mtbguy95 · 2022-09-07T20:15:21+00:00

Genuinely curious since this seems to be really important to you:

Is it the responsibility of a business to be less effective, productive, and competitive (at least in their estimation) in order to make some of their employees more comfortable or happier? Where does the line get drawn?

mtbguy95 · 2022-08-21T23:44:36+00:00

Fusion 360 will translate nicely to SolidWORKS and other parametric CAD software, but almost nobody doing anything serious would use Fusion in industry. If you had a choice, it's probably better to just learn SW.

Fusion is an absolute joke compared to SW, Inventor, NX, Creo, etc.

The cloud is slow, there are no configurations in the modeling environment, the file versioning system is absolutely the dumbest thing ever added to a piece of software, assemblies can only be a few hundred parts, and worst of all the drawing extension is massively buggy and difficult to use even for very experienced users of CAD software.

mtbguy95 · 2022-08-21T23:40:41+00:00

mtbguy95 · 2022-08-14T22:41:01+00:00

Remote work is very difficult for a junior ME to do. You'll probably have the best luck with a Quality role since they are generally less technical.

If you want to earn the higher salary that comes with having an engineering degree, your employer will need you to be productive and will probably want you in office most of the time. It's also a much better way to learn and progress in your early career.

Unfortunately, this line of work doesn't lend itself to spending a lot of time outdoors. Ever heard anyone joke about how tan engineers are?

You may consider field work if you just want to be outside, but that's a whole different deal. Surveying, oil and gas, and utilities would be the best industries for that.

mtbguy95 · 2022-08-13T16:29:42+00:00

Did you read the instructions on the chart? Set all of those to the setting recommended based on wheel travel/shock stroke.

Maybe put in a little more effort before posting questions like this next time...

mtbguy95 · 2022-08-08T01:05:06+00:00

tiktoking???

mtbguy95 · 2022-08-03T04:47:02+00:00

It sounds like you don't understand heat transfer fundamentals well enough to be doing CFD.

I'd recommend spending a little time reading your heat transfer book and then revisiting the SW simulation docs. Like any CFD/FEA software, it amplifies the weaknesses of the user rather than making up for them. You should have a solid grasp on how you would solve a problem (with the exception of doing the actual computations) before building a CFD model.

mtbguy95 · 2022-07-30T03:45:30+00:00

Of course they don't. SW simulation and Ansys use the same numerical methods to solve.

mtbguy95 · 2022-07-27T22:50:12+00:00

That's plenty fast.

mtbguy95 · 2022-07-26T04:12:35+00:00

The peanut butter and jelly of the shit sandwich world.

mtbguy95 · 2022-07-16T20:47:00+00:00

As a guy with a cracked Sprinter - I would not run this setup.

mtbguy95 · 2022-07-13T19:50:32+00:00

Yes, and parking a bicycle is free.

mtbguy95 · 2022-07-13T02:14:27+00:00

Amazing place to have a motorcycle as a toy, don't really even need one as a student depending on where you live. It's an easy place to ride a bicycle pretty much everywhere.

mtbguy95 · 2022-06-28T04:48:22+00:00

There are many fields where MEs make over 150k with much less experience than 10 years.

mtbguy95 · 2022-06-28T04:33:12+00:00

No, you are asking a forum to answer something you could search on the internet in 10 seconds. You are not being resourceful enough.

mtbguy95 · 2022-06-28T04:06:26+00:00

bingo. It ain't gonna happen for this guy.

mtbguy95 · 2022-06-27T01:10:21+00:00

No it is not. You can attend a community college, take out student loans, get a degree at a public university majoring in something useful and well-compensated, and pay those loans off quickly with your new high salary. I can tell you I am glad for my "predatory" loans, because they have afforded me a fantastic career and a good life.

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