“US engineering students rankings.” This is just as irrelevant to your original claim as your first source. Why not read them first?

So they are the top places to work because employees continue to work there? That would probably mean they have the highest employee retention.

Doing a quick search of top employee retention rates by company, I don’t see either company even mentioned, let alone at the top. In fact, the only place I saw either mentioned is in this article. If you scroll to the last chart on the page and filter by automotive industry, you will see that Tesla is not near the top, but actually at the very bottom of the list.

This is the comment I responded to:

> His established companies are consistently ranked the top two places to work. At least for engineers.

I don’t doubt that students would perceive two of the most well known companies in their fields to be top employment opportunities. I don’t doubt that those jobs lead to better future employment opportunities either.

I do doubt that they are consistently ranked as the top places to work at by current or past employees, and the source provided gives no evidence to back up that claim.

How do you know any of these sources actually back up what you’re trying to say? You clearly didn’t read, or misunderstood this one.

In the first paragraph of your article from 3 years ago:

“it appears that two of Elon Musk’s companies, SpaceX and Tesla, are perceived by engineering students as the best employers in the country.”

It says nothing about actual current or former employees and one article from 3 years ago would hardly be a consistent track record anyway.