Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,997 total reviews)
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Elon Musk

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 Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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12K reviews
1.0
Aug 28, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Ideology of the company is great. Engineering side has a better future and visibility. Nice health benefits and unlimited PTOs.

Cons

Higher management doesn't care about suggestions. IT side is full of politics and managers does not appreciate work done by engineers. HR team is just for name sake.

1.0
Aug 18, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cool mission to be a part of. The cars are awesome even if they are overpriced.

Cons

They fire sales people a lot and for no reason. They ask you to do the tasks of sales people who get paid 50k per year at least but pay you hourly just as much as someone working at a shoe store. They closed my entire store and fired everybody even managers (in a bizarre and unapologetic way) then opened it back up a few weeks later and try to re employ everyone. Besides the risk of being fired ay any second by being in sales at Tesla there is a bigger issue; throughout my 14 months at Tesla "management" would constantly raise team and individual goals in blatant efforts to NOT PAY us by making sure we didn't reach their goals so we wouldn't earn any extra bonus or commission. They will tell you work hard for promotion then hire externally anyway.

1.0
Jul 23, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Insurance is helpful. *Bonus* Tesla partners with a loan provider so you can borrow the money they are not paying you.

Cons

Upper Management from Elon, down has no idea how to run a company. There is no sense being used. This is not innovative in the slightest. It is more like someone thinks up an idea, no one thinks it through, no one listens to the objections from the people on the floor saying “it’s been done before” or “this would make that work”, it is running full force at a wall and expecting it to cave because you want it to. There is no forethought behind change. Do not join this sinking ship! Look up articles and reviews. There is no one happy with Tesla inside or out, that isn’t a complete Fan. Customers are irate because they are flat out lied to. Employees, scratch that Executives, WALK OUT daily. No one that learns the truth wants to be a part of this bait and switch company.

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