Tesla reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(12,025 total reviews)
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Elon Musk

60% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Tesla has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 12,025 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
Dec 30, 2022

Sad place to work

Recommend
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Pros

Electric vehicles are the future. I was proud I to be part of the industry.

Cons

Elon Musk had no compassion for his “team”. The yes men around him were awful too. Disorganized and aggressive culture: poor work life balance.

1.0
Dec 19, 2022

clean out the cult

Recommend
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Pros

-since they prefer to prey on young and naïve/desperate students fresh out of undergrad/college, you get to meet a lot of diverse people genuinely interested in environmental issues; until you all realize it's a marketing/PR act to funnel in investments and you and your skills are being undervalued/utilized and exploited (along with the environment and communities the co. claims to help).

Cons

-works employees to early grave. -exploits/abuses employees, customers, local/state/federal laws/regulations. -lowest industry pay/benefits; vehemently anti-union. -exploitative contract clauses that make you a powerless appendage rather than an integral employee (even worse if you're mislabeled as an "independent contractor"). -absorbed nation's largest solar installer for its liquidity to save a failing car company. -sets glamorous sounding goals it has no intention of delivering to drive investments. -poorly micromanaged by a cult of personality autocrat that suffers from paranoia, delusions, and megalomania.

1.0
Nov 22, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The pay is comparably good to other jobs in the area.

Cons

Like the title says, YOU will be making the sacrifices. The company will work your mind and body to the point of collapse, just to move the goalpost when you do succeed. Don’t expect acknowledgment for your contributions. Once you start to show signs of burnout, they will fire you prior to the next quarterly earnings call and report your previous salary as “profit”.

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