Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,931 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 11,931 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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2.0
Nov 18, 2023

Not Great

Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are good, people will think your job is interesting, very casual dress code, stock awards

Cons

- micromanagement is their middle name - employees treated like children: one employee does something stupid or unprofessional, whole department pays the price - management will throw entire workflows under the bus because of their poor decisions to cover themselves - very boring, unfulfilling work. Think assembly line, production work. - stated in job description that exposure to machine learning/engineers: not true at all, unless you mean in the most peripheral way possible. TLDR: the skills gained as a annotator or lead will not serve you in any other company as they are so specific to your workflow PTO is a joke: 2 weeks vacation. Whether you are there 1 day or 15 years. It never increases unless you get to salaried position, and even they rarely took time because there was ALWAYS some frantic push or deadline to be reached. - Culture is horrible: clicky, high school feeling culture, constant team changes and turnover. I had 5 different managers in less than a year. In short, I’ve never worked with so many good people who were so miserable and desperate for change or a way out.

1.0
May 7, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The Model S is a fun vehicle to drive due to the instant torque, and one of the perks is that you'll obviously drive the vehicles from time to time. Healthcare benefits are decent, but that's essentially where the pros to working for Tesla come to an end.

Cons

The short version: 1.) Horrible, unqualified management, 2.) low pay, extreme hours and high demand, 3.) zero support and poor communication. The long version: Management, particularly on the sales side of the organization, is a major failure. Starting from the top down, the initiative for the past couple years has been to bring in people from the fashion or "high end retail" industries who have ZERO knowledge of the product, the company culture, the automotive industry, and no desire to actually learn about it. These people are given management positions without proper training or education, and lack even minimal base knowledge to do their jobs well so instead they rely on statistics/metrics in hopes that they can succeed by playing a numbers game. They do not have good intentions for the company or it's long-term success, and have completely destroyed what was once a great culture and environment to be a part of. People who have worked for the company for years and dedicated themselves to the mission aren't given any consideration, and very few promotions from within ever occur anymore. There is rampant sexism and favoritism at almost every level, if you have any aspirations to advance in your career, it won't happen here. The pay is awful, you will be expected to work a minimum of 60-70 hours a week, available 7 days a week, for a 40hr/week salary. Commission for sales is insulting (approximately one-thousandth of a percent of the cost of the vehicle), you don't get paid until the car is delivered (which, as a member of the sales team, you have ZERO control over and can take 8+ weeks in some cases), and you get to work in an environment where your employment is constantly being threatened by your boss(es). HR doesn't do anything to correct any issues brought to their attention, they do not look out for the interest of the employees in any way, shape, or form. Emails and phone calls to just about any department often go ignored on a consistent basis, and regardless of how valid it may be, no one at any level of management wants to hear about the problems that exist and how to fix them. If you speak up, you will most certainly have a target on your back and I guarantee you will be subject to retaliation at some point or another. It is abundantly clear that the employees who are down in the trenches, bending over backwards to try and achieve targets and satisfy customers are thought of as completely expendable. Meanwhile, those who act with no regard for ethical behavior and professional courtesy are often the ones to benefit from promotions, it is truly disturbing.

3.0
Jan 4, 2016

Sales Here Is For The Dedicated

Recommend
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Pros

Tesla is the most exciting company you can work for today. It feels like a startup where you're directly contributing to changing the world but is big enough and has enough money to treat their employees well. By no means is it like working at Facebook or Twitter (there are little to no perks beyond pay and brand name) but it does make you proud of what you are doing with your life while you are there. This is something that is extremely rare to find anywhere else. People work here because they WANT to work here not because they want to get rich. On that note... the pay for hard working Owner Advisors is VERY good. I watched the sales organization revamp at least 10 times to what it is today and I can honestly say it is a world class paying sales organization for the product it sells. With time the company will be a much better place to work. It's still an infant in the tech and auto industries and middle management reflects that.

Cons

Middle management is some of the worst management I've seen at any company. Power struggles and inexperience run rampant. This is currently being fixed as poor managers with too much power are being demoted or moved. Competition within sales used to be playful and inspiring but now is a determent from being able to do your job well. It's an awful culture within sales. It really has turned in to a huge cat fighting mess. Great culture and attitude within the overall company though and a focus on "the mission". There is also virtually no room to grow within the sales organization. Once you are an Owner Advisor, there is nowhere else to go. Become a Store Manager? Make less money in commission. After awhile you loose the will to stay on the grind. P.S. time off in sales is strongly and silently discouraged.

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