Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,933 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 11,933 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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12K reviews
2.0
Apr 5, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great health benefits: vision, dental, and health. 401k, RSUs, PTO, sick time

Cons

No work/life balance, terrible management, numbers and productivity valued over people, ran like a factory environment. Timed breaks, 30 min lunch, very strict time punch in’s, user timeline tracking for everyday, no stability internally with projects changing on the fly. Supervisors are constantly let go, and changed. No real opportunities for growth and professional developments. A joke.

1.0
Jun 18, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-You will get to work on exciting products that have the potential of changing the world. -You will be surrounded by very smart, hardworking individuals. The caliber of people working at Tesla is very high.

Cons

-Benefits are poor. Older reviews will tell you the benefits are good, and that was true until Jan 2018. The benefits are now mediocre at best. -Upper management double-speak. I work on the energy products side of the business. We have always been lowest priority from a resource standpoint. We are constantly told that the projects we were working on were important to the business, but were then given no resources to complete the projects. -Elon fires people just because he's mad, not because they actually deserved it. -Management has no clear plan. Over a year ago, all the office staff knew we were stretched too thin between Model 3, semi truck, and the multiple energy products we were working on. Projects have been pushed out, pulled in, pushed back out, and put on hold numerous times over the past year because management can't figure out what their plan is. -Everyone is scared to death of Elon (because of random firings) so no one is willing to challenge him. This is not a healthy culture. -You are treated as disposable. Don't expect to be treated well for sacrificing all of your time and energy for this company. They will use you up and throw you out. More times than I can remember, people have work absurd hours for months on end and then were let go. - Upper management is clearly out of its depth. On the Model 3 we have wasted 1 year of production time and millions of dollars on production lines that don’t work and that will never work because Tesla didn’t provide an explicit statement of work to the production line vendor, and they didn’t deliver what we thought they would deliver. That was completely Tesla’s fault. Because of that, we have been losing money for the past year instead of making cars and just had layoffs of 9% of the company. Those people probably would all still have jobs if management knew what they were doing.

3.0
Apr 16, 2018

Too Much Too Fast

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a free-for-all learning environment with little to no gates to block your ambitions. Everyone is willing to help and is generally excited to be here. What you will learn in one year anywhere else you will learn here in two months. Free soda and cereal.

Cons

Most people are still excited to be here because they're so new. Everyone is new because most quit from exhaustion or get fired for disagreeing with management. You'll learn so much so fast here in the form of "what not to do", but because everyone is always new the company keeps repeating the same mistakes over and over again. There's no real end in sight. The more reliable you are, the more you're utilized. They will push you to your limits until you're so exhausted and beaten down that you either look elsewhere for employment or get promoted, leading to even more responsibilities and a higher chance of getting fired for something small, even if shadowed by all of your accomplishments. In the end, you still feel like you're doing something great for the world, but there's no real light at the end of the tunnel for a healthy sustainable career. Only long... very long hours and one day off a week.

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