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
2.0
Apr 12, 2019

Going downhill fast

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Pros

- on good days, the mission does feel inspiring to be a part of - strong coworkers for the most part - challenging projects to work on - get to say you work for Tesla

Cons

- completely unrealistic program timelines result in backbiting, cutting corners, mental and and personal stress - energy and solar program get almost no attention internally or externally, many people are leaving - demoralizing to see the solar business getting purposefully shelved. Have to let it die gracefully to avoid proving litigation re- solar acquisition wrong - morale is extremely low given all of the layoffs and voluntary turnover - you are forced to “volunteer” to support quarter end delivery and production initiative - open office location is terrible, they are cramming more and more people into small areas - stock is super volatile which creates a lot of stress

2.0
Mar 3, 2019

Sales Manager

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Pros

The mission is special to be a part of, I truly hope Tesla succeeds in what they are trying to do. The people before they got laid off were great to work with. Benefits were outstanding.

Cons

Outside of a great car I don’t think this company really knows what they are doing. They get everyone excited about the mission, then when times get hard they treat you like a statistic. I watched them acquire SolarCity then completely destroy everything they accomplished within 2 years. Elon Musk is extremely brilliant, but he is heartless and not someone I would ever work for again.

1.0
Jan 30, 2019

Tesla Energy

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Pros

Nope. Just no. Read below...

Cons

Just don’t. Co. can’t even manage themselves, let alone their 417,000+ solar energy customers. Nor do they seem to give a crap about their employees. Gross. Constantly took the beating verbally from customers because corporate couldn’t provide competent help or materials needed to handle the work loads for maintenance work. Most of CCT leadership was a joke. Constantly in pointless meetings that accumulated to little if any progress or resolution to ongoing & growing concerns and issues both internal & external. THERES A FINE LINE BETWEEN BEING ADAPTABLE AND BEING TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF. They could have cared less how many times I sugar coated around the truth of these matters. And all for a company who I and its customers don’t matter to. No room to grow bc they’d rather hire off the street from temp agencies if you don’t roll over and play the game.. How could anyone grow, much less thrive, in an environment that is setup to fail? No structure. No REAL management/leadership makes for a stressful work place. Just.. look elsewhere! Other than some amazing co-workers, you won’t walk away from this position happy.

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