Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,952 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 11,952 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
Apr 2, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Helping to make an impact on the environment.

Cons

Unfortunately Tesla has so many. To start with the pay is extremely low, they usually try to find people from out of state that aren't familiar with the wage increase in Nevada and underpay them. Management is a joke. They have leaders in place who have never been a recruiter before and when you challenge them or ask for guidance they write you off as a nuisance. If you want to move up or change teams you better be in on the "inner circle" otherwise you will never be able to move up. The arrogance and favoritism in this place is astounding. Tesla does not care about their employees. Last year they had two MASSIVE layoffs and only gave severace to those people in places where it was mandatory - like is California. But if you worked in Nevada you got absolutely nothing. I love what Tesla stands for but moving to a new state and getting laid off after less than a year is awful. I would not recommend anyone to work here unfortunately. Especially if you are considering moving for this company.

2.0
Feb 19, 2019

Not fun anymore

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is pretty decent . Shift schedule 3 on 4 off, 4 on 3 off is pretty nice.

Cons

Dealing with production management and associates. Production is very disrespectful and unhelpful when it comes to quality. The expectation is that quality and production work together, but that is very untrue. Production seems unwilling to help quality in every situation and not informing quality when a quality situation arises. Favoritism within all departments. Some associates are allowed to take 30 minute breaks and hour long lunches while others sometimes only get their lunch. Supervisors and managers do not enforce HR policies, safety policies and workmanship policies. Lake Tesla- Parking lot doesn't have drainage. When it snows and rains the parking lot becomes flooded . Time off policy- You can only take a day off if you have pto and there is no unpaid time off. This means if you're sick and have no pto you're forced to come into work sick. This is terrible business practice and shows the company doesn't care about employee's. There should be pto and unpaid time off. A good company will give you pto and up to 40 hours of unpaid time off to cover times when you're sick and have no pto. Road Condition- The road conditions are terrible here. Poor lighting, huge pot holes, and poor road striping. Overall: Find a better and more enjoyable palce to work. Not one where you will be disrespected by management and associates for just doing your job. Right now are bad times at Tesla. Nobody seems to enjoy working here anymore and are only here for the medical benefits. I can't really reccommend somebody to apply to work here.

1.0
Dec 28, 2018

Biggest waste of time

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very innovative, going to be huge.

Cons

Nobody knows what's going on.

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