Factors that influence your job satisfaction most*

  1. The challenges that accompany the design of new products 8.27
  2. Researching potential design solutions 8.00
  3. The compensation you receive for the work you do 7.61
  4. Opportunity to design products that can benefit society 7.49
  5. The recognition you get from others for the work you do 6.91
  6. Working in team situations with peers 6.62
  7. Working independently of others 6.49
  8. The pressures associated with solving design problems 6.35
    *on a scale of 1-10

10 most pressing problems at work

  1. Insufficient people resources to get the job done
  2. Finding the optimal components for my designs
  3. Time-to-market pressures
  4. Having to compromise my design approaches
  5. Insufficient funding for my design projects
  6. Inability to adequately test product designs
  7. Competitive market pressures
  8. Shrinking product life cycles
  9. Lack of design management direction
  10. Politics at work

Top 10 professional issues that keep you up at night

  1. Looming project deadlines
  2. Staying current with new and emerging technologies
  3. Product reliability issues
  4. Concerns about job security
  5. Concerns about the general health of the economy
  6. Outsourcing issues
  7. Price/performance issues
  8. Concerns about financial health of your company
  9. Dealing with reductions in staff
  10. Component availability issues

Composite of the average engineer