Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,988 total reviews)
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59% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Tesla has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 11,988 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
Aug 7, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

One may learn a lot about how important branding is. If you can create an awesome brand image in the mind of the consumer you can learn how to get away with crap products marketed heavily and with arrogance, a completely chaotic and unorganized back end process, and poor post sale service. It's genius!

Cons

Expensive benefits. "The company is not profitable" is a great excuse for a lot of things, like the lack of a retirement plan, and especially when all of management and most employees are cult members and willingly or unwillingly know this about themselves. They fall in line and march to the orders of what the most senior person in the room makes up about what they say the CEO wants. This was the first experience in my life where I was almost fired for not standing and shouting for a video message from the God-Emperor CEO as if he could see me not cheering and clapping and shouting his name in adoration. Seriously. Happened. I couldn't believe it.

2.0
Jul 12, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Opportunities to move up a level or two if you're willing to relocate are abundant -Get to meet all kinds of people and build relationships that can turn into other opportunities -You will learn the job quickly and also learn how to improvise in less-then-ideal situations to turn it around -You get to be around $100k cars that can drive themselves and take them out for a spin here and there

Cons

-You will be working for Tesla for the mission, NOT THE PAY, which is probably less than you're worth -Since the company is still growing, the roles are often intertwined/blurred and you will not be compensated justly (or at all) for it -A typical work week is a minimum of 40 hrs, each end of quarter can hit a minimum of 60 hr work weeks for 2-4 weeks -You might be pressured to not have a social life, as your new family and friends will be Tesla -Working for Tesla is very idealized and put on a pedestal: everyone must drive a Tesla , major discounts on the car, everyone has met Elon, everyone makes a lot of money- NO, probably 5% have met Elon and drive new Teslas, 20% make enough money to buy a used Tesla. -The list could go on

2.0
Jun 14, 2017

Just No

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Interesting vehicles and technology, if a bit lacking in the quality department. Driving said vehicles on a regular basis (though this isn't the same for everyone) Many hard-working and friendly coworkers from different backgrounds

Cons

Very minimal training, if there was any training at all. One of my essential job duties (claimed to be 50% of what I'd be doing) was tied up in paperwork for months. Manager was a hyper-inflated zealot who occasionally got into altercations with employees and regularly held up progress by micromanagement and poor planning. Other coworkers all had a generally negative attitude and negative view towards our manager, whose power seemed to be unchecked by the regional manager. Hours were constantly up in the air. Ten hour days were the rule, not the exception. Trips with truck and trailer were rigged to skirt the rules (two people would be sent to switch off on an 11-12 hour drive, since license limits maximum daily driving hours to 10)

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