Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,980 total reviews)
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Elon Musk

59% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Tesla has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 11,980 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 Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Sep 6, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits, and being able to mention ”Tesla” when you apply for another job.

Cons

Top management and HR are the only good people in this company, but top management at this location just got fired so from here on Tesla future looks dark. Most of the other employees still suffer from the Solar City disease (when only bad people were hired (complex people with lots of social as well as mental health issues, low educated and low IQ)). It is not just the staff that plays games, middle management is involved too and they are quick to fire, bully or deplatform anyone who suggests improvement or solving the many problems this company has. They say they want improvement but due to middle management this is not true. Everyone is striving to preserve the status quo which gives them power. Many of the company secrets are held by people not willing to share them, to make themselves untouchable, and the only way to advance is to join the unspoken cartel.

1.0
Aug 28, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Ideology of the company is great. Engineering side has a better future and visibility. Nice health benefits and unlimited PTOs.

Cons

Higher management doesn't care about suggestions. IT side is full of politics and managers does not appreciate work done by engineers. HR team is just for name sake.

1.0
Aug 18, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cool mission to be a part of. The cars are awesome even if they are overpriced.

Cons

They fire sales people a lot and for no reason. They ask you to do the tasks of sales people who get paid 50k per year at least but pay you hourly just as much as someone working at a shoe store. They closed my entire store and fired everybody even managers (in a bizarre and unapologetic way) then opened it back up a few weeks later and try to re employ everyone. Besides the risk of being fired ay any second by being in sales at Tesla there is a bigger issue; throughout my 14 months at Tesla "management" would constantly raise team and individual goals in blatant efforts to NOT PAY us by making sure we didn't reach their goals so we wouldn't earn any extra bonus or commission. They will tell you work hard for promotion then hire externally anyway.

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