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      Tesla reviews

      3.6

      58% would recommend to a friend

      (11,999 total reviews)
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      Elon Musk

      59% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

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      Tesla has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 11,999 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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      12K reviews
      4.0
      Sep 14, 2016

      Great mission, fantastic coworkers

      Senior firmware engineer
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      Pros

      Smartest people I've ever worked with - almost everyone is expert level Elon is inspirational if a little insane Great feeling of actually doing something useful for humanity Management actually makes good decisions most of the time Benefits are better than the salary

      Cons

      Identity crisis of not being a startup but also not a mature company Mediocre pay, worst-case scenario for finding a decent commute or an affordable home Depending on what area you work in, work-life balance can be off (I personally never felt pressured to work when I didn't want to- friends of mine at the company experienced this)

      2.0
      Aug 5, 2016

      View from IT/Dev perspective

      Staff performance engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Wonderful long term goal. Overall Benefits - Not as good as some, but better than most. Small teams. Large say in what happens (if you wish).

      Cons

      * Low pay due to "Manufacturing." Not as good as "Technology" * "Speed of light" pace. Miscalculate by 1 millisecond, and you are 186 miles off course. * Nepotism * Little communication between teams. Very little planning/integration between teams. * Very little overall "system design." Lots! of "by the seat of your pants" development going on (see "light speed pace"). * Selection of "sub optimal" technologies due to "well, I know C#/Microsoft" instead of selecting large enterprise ready tools/systems. "if your only tool is a hammer, all your problems become nails." * SEVERE! employee burnout/apathy.

      3.0
      Jul 25, 2016

      Underpaid, little scope for progression, bureaucratic and political, gets seriously boring quite quickly

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      -Awesome product -Innovative Company -You do some fun events -Decent benefits package -You get to drive the cars

      Cons

      -Everyone is overqualified and underpaid -Becomes relentlessly boring very quickly -You learn everything in a couple of months and then you stop gaining more experience -They hire externally rather than promote from within -They use your enthusiasm while your new to get good results then they get rid of people -Brainwash new employees and they all end up burning out

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