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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2.0
Sep 13, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Elon Musk -Cool products - cars and solar products

Cons

-Over worked - stretched to the limits. Recruiters handle up to 75 requisitions (openings) -Requiring a degree from applicants but the Hiring Manager herself did not have one. She had little to no experience either except for a reputation for being a hard a&$. -In the SolarCity merger we felt we were going to be embraced but little did we know it was planned from the beginning that they were not going to keep SolarCity employees. -Baptism by fire for new hires -Low base pay - great stocks or RSU offerings only if you are not let go before they vest which is highly unlikely -No remote or flexible working schedules -No investment in recruiting tools/training - Their ATS system is archaic and not meant for a large company.

2.0
Aug 16, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get to say you work for Elon Musk, and you get to test drive Tesla's every day.

Cons

They bring you in with the promise of great pay and benefits with amazing bonuses. It is true but in the 9 months I worked there, they changed the pay structure 3 times, from monthly to quarterly and made it harder and harder to achieve the bonuses. They pay you .001% of a car that you are selling, and it is very hard to hit their targets. There is also no leadership or communication between California and the local regions, and they make changes with no notification. You have to find out job crucial information by following twitter. We had no manager in our store at all for 6 months. They recently fired a ton of the sales force based on past 6 month perfomance with no warning. Tesla is great but they don't care about their employees, and they will try and find a reason to fire you before your first year so they don't have to pay you your stock options they offer you at the beginning. There is also no room to move up, they like to hire from Apple

1.0
Aug 7, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

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