Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,981 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 11,981 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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3.0
Jun 23, 2019

Does Elon Musk know?

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Pros

A great place to work and learn new things. Unlimited potential within yourself. Overtime hours is not an issue as there are plenty. Personal career development is excellent. It's up to you to put in the work and reach for the Stars.

Cons

If you are a go-getter, your teammates may not appreciate your efforts as this makes them have to work harder. Security tend to follow workers around enforcing certain protocol. If you are hired in one department, do not expect to cross over to another department. You are hired in for a reason in which you would have to reapply to change roles. Politics here are worse than other places. Try not to excel amongst the complacent. You may find a complaint was made against you. Then a special meeting would be arranged with management trying to reprogram you. If that did not work, management would have you meet with HR, in which you would have to deal with HR removing your health benefits or reverifying your college degrees, as a form of intimidation and reprogramming. Dehumanizing process.

2.0
Jun 10, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- You won’t find many companies with a better mission, everyone believes what we’re doing matters - Peers will be a driving factor of keeping you happy in the company. Some amazing and hardworking people, especially those who can successfully make it past their first year or two.

Cons

- extremely high turn over of not just senior leadership, but also within teams. - brilliant a**holes running rampant amidst layoffs - leaders letting a lot of folks “sandbag” because the current state of the company is so bad that it benefits from even the smallest contributions of employees (even if it’s not their best effort - gaps are all over the place between senior leadership and associates. Those gaps are only being filled by people taking on more work, because the company is struggling to hire backfills due to financial constraints - the current attitude in the company is “survival” - no matching 401k - Elon’s behavior, tweets, and “celebrity” directly often impacts your equity I.E. income - leadership has almost no understanding of how to articulate, plan, and execute against key business priorities.

2.0
Jun 2, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

You get to say you work for Tesla along with 10000 others.

Cons

Everything, management is surprisingly bad. You always think your current management sucks, but then you come here and realize your old managers were good. Atleast they likely had a clue. They try to reinvent everything just to realize industry standards were good to begin with.

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