Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,934 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 11,934 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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2.0
Jan 20, 2017

Great Product Poor Environment

Recommend
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Pros

Get to work with some of the most brilliant people in Engineering. Working at a company that is changing the world. Hands-on time with wonderful cars, Energy products OK benefits like health insurance etc

Cons

Extremely long hours Below market pay Broken or inefficient processes Manufacturing has lots of room for improvement Highly results oriented organization Disconnect between global teams Bad materials procurement pipeline Unrealistic deadlines Extreme lack of on-site perks Patched together internal software Lack of investment in infrastructure Parking sucks

1.0
Apr 2, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Green technology, fancy factory. great bus parking program just for office employee

Cons

It all about number not safety of the vehicle or safety of worker. employee been force to over work just to kept up with production goal set my our ceo which is impossible to accomplished. Information flow are terrible you will never know what is going on for the day or the week meeting are useless same information pass through everyday. everything is a rush from eating to restroom to break. worker injured? can you still operated the machine? great keep working go home sleep and make sure be on time tomorrow ! go to the nurse clinic? oh you sure you didn't got injured at home? oh we can't help you, you have to get your own doctor to schedule appointment. doctor appointment turn in supervisor reaction " why you keep schedule appointment ?" 401 k? it a joke. Promotion and Lead? no training at all some lead are clueless on how to repair. promotion is based on how you respond to question on interview not on experience. There is status level at tesla if you are part of production don't even try to entrance on office site they will look at you like you are a low level citizen. management keep giving out promise but none of the promise came true. it been over 2 year and the speech still the same. false information. worker it been treated like they just a number and not human. it alway associated fault when is clearly poor management skill and if you are a hard worker don't even expect to recognize. they recognize you on a useless label design instead of how you work and help your co worker out and reduce the step of the process to cut the tack time down. in my 2 year experience there all i see is exhausted looking zoombie walking around and not human walking around.

3.0
Sep 11, 2015

Never a dull moment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Very talented, diverse and generally friendly co-workers. Challenging and exciting projects. It’s encouraging to see the results of your labor viewed favorably by the media. Company is growing quickly which is exciting to be a part of. Lots to see and learn from as most everything is done under one roof.

Cons

Poor work life balance. Particularly inconsistent management across teams. Project timelines are unreasonable and don't accurately reflect the work or resources required. Constant firefighting gets exhausting and frustrating. Compensation and perks not on par with other comparable companies.

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