Job Satisfaction in Tech Industries: Are Newer Recruits Happier?

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This blog has covered the important issue of job satisfaction before, noting that keeping a career feeling fresh is about good communication, balancing a sense of progression towards personal goals, and finding new ways to challenge yourself. These concepts can be applied pretty universally across all industries – but are there certain career paths that make doing so more difficult as time goes on?

One increasingly popular field that often seems particularly blighted by accusations of youth bias is the tech industry: as Bloomberg Businessweek reported in 2016, the top 150 Silicon Valley firms had collectively faced well over 200 official complaints to the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing based on alleged instances of age discrimination over the luxembourg phone number resource previous eight years. The industry has long been dogged by claims that it’s inherently skewed towards younger recruits – and now, a recent study into job satisfaction levels at some of its top employers does little to challenge the stereotype.

The research, compiled by online compensation and benefits analyst gathered feedback from nearly 35,000 workers at 17 of the most prominent tech firms around. These included the likes of Facebook, eBay, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Cisco and Apple, whose staff demographics were broken down along such lines as average age, length of service with current employer, total years of industry experience, and median salary at both early- and mid-career stages.

When charted as a series of infographics, the resulting data does indeed appear to show a marked drop-off in levels of overall job satisfaction at those firms whose staff were older and more experienced on average. Within the Payscale study group, this would be brands like Hewlett Packard, IBM, Oracel and Intel, whose average employee ages were closer overall to national averages (42 in America). Facebook, by contrast, has an average staff age of just 29; Google and Tesla staff average 30 years of age, and Apple 31.