Tesla Technical Program Manager reviews

3.4

85% would recommend to a friend

(29 total reviews)
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Elon Musk

76% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Technical Program Manager employees have rated Tesla with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 29 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Technical Program Manager professionals have a good working experience there. Tesla is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Technical Program Manager professionals compared to other employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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29 reviews
4.0
Mar 2, 2021
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Pros

My coworkers at Tesla were some of the most passionate people I have ever worked with. I felt like they really believe in what they were doing, were motivated to work hard and more than full-time (by far, in many cases), and gave me energy with their work. The engineers were incredibly good and very well-rounded. The electrical and mechanical engineers I worked with knew a lot about the sourcing and manufacturing of their products, and were deeply involved alongside me in managing the overall programs. I recall them staying late, coming in early, working on weekends. The goodwill of the public and of many suppliers helped us a lot to pull off some miracles. Circuit boards built and shipped to us in a weekend when they would usually take a week or more. Rubber prototype parts printed overnight, etc. This was all impressive and precise. We were pulling off many miracles to build the M3 and get it out on time.

Cons

My projects at Tesla were under-resourced a bit as is customary for the company that's done so much with such a small team and relatively-small financial resources. This was a tough constraint, but one everyone faced. Time was very short, always. There was little support for newer hires to get ramped up and onboarded into their teams, unless you were an intern. We lost a lot of good people for bad reasons, and because tensions could be high. Turnover affected my team, adjacent teams, and me, as I came in expecting a mentor and fellow TPM coworkers who had left before I started or left shortly after.

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