Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,997 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 11,997 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 Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Oct 2, 2018

Not for the faint hearted

Recommend
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Pros

The product will be excellent but it has issues. The majority of staff love the cars, the mission and the general modern vibe that the stores and service centres bring. Everyone is on a mission to produce great results.

Cons

Prepare to literally work yourself to death if you ever become a manager. It’s relentless, with huge amounts of pressure with senior managers telling you what you should and shouldn’t do, without ever getting their hands dirty. No one senior with influence ever steps in to apologise for the condition of the product, so the local staff get it in the neck. Moved completely away from a company that does whatever it can to provide excellence to customer to delivering numbers and getting the share price up. The new thread of senior managers, bar one or two, are here on a power trip, not because they are passionate about the brand. And it shows, no one cares about the car, the craftsmanship, the quality - but any mistake will result in being told how much better you could be. It’s a case of showcasing themselves because they can say they were ‘strong’ with someone. People generally last 2 years before they jump because you really do have to put Tesla first if you are a manager.

2.0
Jul 29, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

People at Tesla are very open and accepting of change. It's one of the best and worst things about it. If you happen to land in the right fit team for you, it can be the best thing ever because although you work long unpredictable hours, you'll get to do a lot of what you love. Also, there are some managers who also protect their teams from the surrounding chaos of the company. I wasn't fortunate to have a manager like that but I knew of some.

Cons

Work life balance is given no consideration, expect to be at work/on call 24/7, even worse when you are good at your job. Employee turn over rate is high, most engineers will tell you they don't expect to be at the company in 2 years time, even those just starting. Tesla really fails when it comes to developing their employees. There is no care into what projects individuals want to do and lean towards, everyone just needs to be carbon copies of good controls engineers and that's what every manager wants. It also doesn't help that motivation is through fear. Elon is more feared than respected. The drive is to never show up on Elon's radar. I heard someone put it quite well "Tesla is a great company to come from, but not a great company to be in". Any job you take after this will feel like a vacation. Teams are pushed to be homogenous and not heterogenous, meaning that everyone is meant to be a cog of the same size in the wheel. No thought at all is given to differences between individuals. Things like team diversity or using the individuals strengths of people to the full capacity are things for other companies that have visions past the next 3-6 months.

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.

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