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      Tesla Sr. Software Engineer reviews

      3.4

      37% would recommend to a friend

      (99 total reviews)
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      Elon Musk

      24% approve of CEO

      50% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.4

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.1

      Culture & values

      2.8

      Senior management

      2.6

      Work/Life balance

      Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Tesla with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 99 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Tesla is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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      99 reviews
      3.0
      Nov 29, 2023

      No Mentorship but Plenty of Interesting Technical Problems

      Sr. software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The company absolutely loves to take risk, which is great if you're an engineer that is keen to really test and build your skills. Tesla does greatly value strong technical talent. Best way to learn here is FAFO. Tesla is a good place to work for a short period of time but it depends what you want / value. So depending on your circumstance, Tesla will either be a great or a terrible place to work. So i'm not sure what to put for the "recommend to a friend" option below but it really depends on the friend and what they want. I have referred old colleagues to Tesla in the past so its definitely an individual question.

      Cons

      There's basically no mentorship so you have to learn most things on your own. Engineers are generally viewed as a commodity and the culture is also becoming more zero sum as time goes on, which means people at a Director level now either fire or give a minimum number of people a bad review for every performance review cycle. They want to fit everything to a bell curve. So far it seems to dis-incentivize collaboration because we're now all competing with each other.

      5.0
      Sep 19, 2023

      tesla

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      free food and lots of stuff

      Cons

      lots of long hrs and stuff

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