Tesla Sr. Software Engineer reviews

I've been working here for a bit over 3 years and overall, I would absolutely not recommend working here if you care about the following things. The company is very cheap - they'll dish out bare minimum to their employees. Constant downgrade of office buildings to cheaper places, expensive food & snacks (nothing is free at Tesla), super over-flooded parking and solution is waiting in line for valet (thankfully we're now WFH with covid), switch to flexible PTO, no holiday parties, and basically anything to save money. It's the little things, and honestly there's just a constant display of frugality. More importantly, real talent isn't rewarded. It isn't about completing a task in the most optimal way or designing outstanding/scalable solutions, it's about closing tickets. It doesn't matter if the code has to be redone in a couple years. If you have strong fundamentals, you won't find many truly inspirational engineers or people you can really learn from here - they leave quickly.

The work demands a lot from you.