Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,938 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 11,938 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
Mar 22, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Brand, mission, product, and some awesome team members.

Cons

My move to Tesla was always intended to be a career move for me. I was incredibly passionate, proud and motivated about going to work for Tesla, its mission, and the exciting professional journey that I hoped lay ahead of me. It is with tangible disappointment that I leave - the experience soured by a culture and business practices poisoned by poor leadership.

1.0
Apr 25, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Coworkers are awesome. You get to sit in the cars. You get free coffee and cereal.

Cons

Lack of communication between upper management and subordinates. No praise for a job well done. Expected to work weekends no matter what. Fridays mean absolutely nothing because you don't get a break. Be prepared to answer emails throughout the night (sometimes even at 2am). People are always quitting.

2.0
Nov 18, 2023

Not Great

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

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