Tesla reviews

I've been working here for a bit over 3 years and overall, I would absolutely not recommend working here if you care about the following things. The company is very cheap - they'll dish out bare minimum to their employees. Constant downgrade of office buildings to cheaper places, expensive food & snacks (nothing is free at Tesla), super over-flooded parking and solution is waiting in line for valet (thankfully we're now WFH with covid), switch to flexible PTO, no holiday parties, and basically anything to save money. It's the little things, and honestly there's just a constant display of frugality. More importantly, real talent isn't rewarded. It isn't about completing a task in the most optimal way or designing outstanding/scalable solutions, it's about closing tickets. It doesn't matter if the code has to be redone in a couple years. If you have strong fundamentals, you won't find many truly inspirational engineers or people you can really learn from here - they leave quickly.

Elon and his little buddy Jerome are absolute tyrants and make a mockery of whatever razor thin HR standards are left here. You can have an entire room of amazing, experienced employees explaining a situation with clear evidence and proposed solutions but if one of these guys is in a bad mood - which seems to be most of the time - then discussions will get cut short, the meeting devolves rapidly into one of them shouting and then nothing gets done. It is painful to watch all of this potential being wasted, as more and more of the best people I (used to) work with quit out of frustration or are pushed out for daring to say something even slightly different than what upper management thinks. Other people complain about the work-life balance, lack of perks, etc, but none of that would (or should) matter if we had calm, professional leaders.