Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,931 total reviews)
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59% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Tesla has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 11,931 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tesla employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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12K reviews
3.0
Sep 19, 2014

4+ years of my life and counting

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The chance to contribute to something truly great. Stock options and decent health benefits. Growth potential as the company expands into new locations.

Cons

Ridiculously Long hours. Reactive approach to virtually all aspects of business. Il-conceived processes and policies. Inexperienced staff at every level. Lack of training and guidance. Executive and senior management is unrealistic in the expectations and execution of unattainable and unsustainable process and policy. The culture the company was founded on has eroded to cut throat unfocused corporate red tape that is completely disconnected with reality. Poor production and manufacturing standards and execution. Quantity over quality mentality in production. Work life balance is disproportionate heavily favoring the work. Annual reviews are not performed in a timely basis.

1.0
Sep 19, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1). 11 months job after I was layoff at GM. 2). Enjoy the beautiful silicon valley

Cons

1). Due to trouble at Detroit, they treat everyone from big three as muppet, they don't respect your experience, knowledge, especially these critical expertise to ensure product reliability. 2). They truely think they can start a new auto company out of silicon valley, yet they are now running out of money and way behind schedule 3). They have no idea what is necessary to ensure the car can last 8-10 years, several incidents where the car failed miserably!

1.0
Aug 9, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The stock rally was great in 2020. Good to learn how software used to be developed prior to 1990s.

Cons

- Scrum-ish Iterative Waterfall development process with various one size-fits-all processes. Forget about 1970s Toyota lean values (not practices), you will build software like you're in an assembly line of one of Henry Ford factories with time bosses and masters around you ready to take credit. - Middle managers tell you how to engineer software. - Rigid chain of command. - Middle management seem to be fighting tooth and nail for their personal survival with various power moves and establishing a loyalty based hierarchy. - Management is never wrong, you are. - Trust and respect is earned by doing exactly how and what the middle micro-management wants you do to as fast as humanly possible. You will likely be elevated to a valuable resource category and promoted if trusted. But you will always be a body. - Placating middle management is tantamount for career success pass Staff-level engineer, exceptions rarely happen. - The company attracts colleagues that actively politically compete against you on the same team. - Showing off your engineering skills tends to be perceived as a threat. - Lasagna code project structure and very low quality codebase. - Teams are reshuffled and reorganized constantly every year or two, almost no choice to work with people you want to work with long term. Teams are not self organized. - Shut up or get fired.

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