Tesla Technical Program Manager (Internship) reviews

Being accepted for an internship for the first time is very exciting, especially when it is for a prestigious company like Tesla. There is lot of anticipation and nerves involved with getting an internship, at least there was for me. Because Tesla is such a big and prestigious company I was expecting their intern experience to be very well put together. I was expecting big intern events with fun and exciting things to do. However this was not really the case. There was not really any exciting events for new hires, we kind of just got thrown into the work. During my internship I was looking forward to having the opportunity to present my work and progress to upper management (my senior manager). My team would carryout monthly meetings where we would have the opportunity to report our findings and progress to our senior manager. Unfortunately my senior manager canceled 2 of the 3 meetings we were supposed to have and I was only able to present my progress once. This was slightly upsetting. I also found that my team and manager had a lot of great ideas but, some of those ideas were pushed to the side and overlooked due to the senior managers personal ideas and goals. Overall this was a mostly positive experience, it was difficult to have an impact within a company thats to the scale of Tesla. If you are looking for projects that excite you and that you are passionate about, find them on your own and present the ideas to your manager.

The distance and commute might take up a lot of time due to California traffic.