Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,956 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 11,956 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
Jul 17, 2018

Owner Advisor

Recommend
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Pros

Sometimes the money is okay but they own you and I am not even kidding. They re-evaluate the potential income all the time. 6 Months into the role and if I sold the same amount of cars I made 60% less. I enjoyed working with smart people and customers who are green energy focused. Driving the cars is fun too.

Cons

The worst part of this role is that they mess with your income potential all the time. It used to be every 6 months, then turned to quarterly and now its monthly. Tesla always sets the board to its harder for you to make money and easier for them to keep it. Right now I am in a position where cars I sold in April wouldn't have been paid out until the end of October. I sold over 43 cars and if one of them cancels I get $0. I hope you have a good savings account on hand to start this position. They changed us to hourly too but you're expected to act like salary. They don't want you to be unreachable on your days off. They play the games where they schedule you at a time but almost bully you that you should be in hours early and stay late and work hours from home. The goals have become unreachable. They recently changed it back to pay outs monthly but you have to sell twice as many cars as before. If you ever take PTO you will not get paid for a month besides the base pay which is not very good.

5.0
Jul 13, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Company Mission to "Accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy" is admirable and inspiring. Work is challenging and invigorating. People are among the brightest on the planet and everyone there is motivated by the same goal so they are all very willing to help each other. I did not see and signs of aggressive ladder climbing or backstabbing.

Cons

Work schedule is 12 hours per day, 5 days per week, more when things are not running smoothly (so pretty much all the time, at this point, ha). If you have a family you should not expect to see much of them.

2.0
May 4, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The vision was great in 2013, and still kind of is. The cars are fun to drive, there’s bright dedicated people, and the swag looks good. Tesla looks great on a resume, and will definitely serve as a stepping stone. Coolness factor perception from the outside is pretty nice. You can be very proud of the products during launch days. The cars are just downright cool.

Cons

The culture is a facade. The bright dedicated people I mentioned are taking better offers. The company/stock is always on the brink of collapse. Elon overpromises and it’s looked down upon if you’re not doing 10-12 hours a day with weekends to fulfill those promises. Working at tesla for 3.5 years is like 5 years in equivalent hours. No organized standard interview procedures. Production and everyone else dislike and avoid each other like the plague. Elitist attitudes from anyone not in production. Production does have large numbers of unskilled unprofessional workers, but engineers still need a lot of design for manufacturing training. The divide is unwarranted since almost everyone is green. The experienced almost always leave. Its top down leadership, and VPs really do think they’re better than everyone. Terrible attitudes of coworkers are left free to act out. In house Prototyping Shop has had a mass exodus of CNC programmers resign. The entire original team is gone. Btw lower than industry standard pay, small stock amounts, no food, and no matching 401k.

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