Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,953 total reviews)
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59% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Tesla has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 11,953 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
1.0
Nov 27, 2018

A Mess

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Pros

You feel cool wearing a Tesla logo

Cons

Working at Tesla was a nightmare; the stress was insurmountable. It was a chaotic, hostile environment. Every quarter they were changing our compensation, or job requirements. A lot of things didn't seem legal as it pertained to how they were changing things. The most incompetent employees were promoted - especially to director. This then had a domino effect on the rest of the employees. Most of the time, no one knew what was going on, and the worst part of it was how the customers were being handled with gross neglect. I'd also like to mention as a female employee, it was very apparent that women were not respected in the workplace, and were not given the same opportunities as their male counterparts. Overall, Tesla seems like a cool company that's trying to change the world, but the reality is it is a giant, chaotic mess. One bad decision after another.

1.0
Aug 14, 2018

It is such a shame...

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Amazing product and genuinely helping to change the world for the better.

Cons

Unbelievably bad management, zero organisation, active HR policy to burn through young single people who will work the longest hours, then replace then when they drop.

2.0
May 30, 2018

New Product Introduction (NPI) Team, Tesla Gigafactory

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Tesla as a company is good filled with hardworking and smart people. Surrounded by innovation and great management. People actually work as a team. Compensation is in line with comparable positions Engineers get good projects in different cross functional teams which add to there skill set. Reno is a lovely place to be in. Sparks is a place near Giga-factory which would suit best for your housing needs.

Cons

New Product Introduction at Tesla Giga-factory is not the team you wanna work with. There are multiple issues with team in terms of team projects, work responsibility distribution, internal team politics and appreciation of one's intellectual skill-set or talent. The team's objective is to run trials of different battery and invertor parts and introduce them into manufacturing. There are issues with team's co-ordination where they have to source parts from different suppliers and co-ordinate with quality, manufacturing and process teams to run the trials. The team is not good at proper co-ordination between cross functional team issues and struggles to meet its deadlines. Improper decisions by team often results in lot of rework, project delays and manufacturing costs. It really needs to work on its internal processes and encourage its constructive criticism as a benefit for the company. Any difference of scientific thought process is not appreciated and may result in negative employee appraisal by the managers. The team hires graduate college interns non technical/ non skilled works like printing labels, posters and stuff which definitely does not add to there technical knowledge. Any request for good technical projects tends to labeling the people as poor performance ratings. Interns are often used as scapegoats for failed milestones. Any request for transfer to different technical teams within the company is not encouraged by NPI managers and results in negative false review which could hinder there future employment scope in this great company. If you want to join Tesla with a dream of excelling in your career, bring some innovation, do challenging projects to bring a change there are various other wonderful teams which appreciate your talent and hard work and have the courage to bring a change in company by self improvement.

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