Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,933 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 11,933 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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3.0
Apr 16, 2018

Too Much Too Fast

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Pros

It's a free-for-all learning environment with little to no gates to block your ambitions. Everyone is willing to help and is generally excited to be here. What you will learn in one year anywhere else you will learn here in two months. Free soda and cereal.

Cons

Most people are still excited to be here because they're so new. Everyone is new because most quit from exhaustion or get fired for disagreeing with management. You'll learn so much so fast here in the form of "what not to do", but because everyone is always new the company keeps repeating the same mistakes over and over again. There's no real end in sight. The more reliable you are, the more you're utilized. They will push you to your limits until you're so exhausted and beaten down that you either look elsewhere for employment or get promoted, leading to even more responsibilities and a higher chance of getting fired for something small, even if shadowed by all of your accomplishments. In the end, you still feel like you're doing something great for the world, but there's no real light at the end of the tunnel for a healthy sustainable career. Only long... very long hours and one day off a week.

2.0
Jan 8, 2018

Politics driven environment

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Pros

There were a group of passionate people who really believed in the mission. When smart people work together, they motivate and encourage each other.

Cons

Those people were fired for pointing out the emperor has no clothes on. If the company is real serious about one thing, the leader walks the talk. Actually, the leader talks the talk only.

1.0
Jul 30, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Great product - great vision, Get to travel and see many cool places Get to drive these awesome cars

Cons

Forget personal life - your days off are cancelled or changed at the last moment, you often are expected to work late or work on your day off There area no clear responsibilities at all, management changes its mind every 5 seconds, in the end you end up so confused on what the hec you really supposed to be doing and feel like a looser all time There was no equipment to do your job properly e.g. in our store there are 16 staff and only 4PC and 4 phones (which don't function properly 70% of the time) so unless you have your own laptop and use your personal phone (which in theory you should not be using for work) your are more or less doomed as you wont be able to meet your targets But the worst part of the job for me was - constant let down of customer expectations: - most sales advisers (at least in our store) are so arrogant they really don't give the customer the respect or time they deserve, - test drive bookings - being cancelled right left and centre, - when the customer comes for the appointment it is often made wait for ages before it is actually taking out for a drive - trade in quotes are not being submitted - in the last few weeks of me working at Tesla, I have also had chance to witness the state of the cars that are being delivered to customers - and is just hmm bad, seriously bad, not even one car out of 9 has been delivered in the condition that it should be according to our policies and procedures. Is just so sole destroying to be apologising to your clients all the time for not your own errors.

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