Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,952 total reviews)
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56% positive business outlook

Tesla has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 11,952 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 Industrie manufacturière industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
May 30, 2018

New Product Introduction (NPI) Team, Tesla Gigafactory

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Pros

Tesla as a company is good filled with hardworking and smart people. Surrounded by innovation and great management. People actually work as a team. Compensation is in line with comparable positions Engineers get good projects in different cross functional teams which add to there skill set. Reno is a lovely place to be in. Sparks is a place near Giga-factory which would suit best for your housing needs.

Cons

New Product Introduction at Tesla Giga-factory is not the team you wanna work with. There are multiple issues with team in terms of team projects, work responsibility distribution, internal team politics and appreciation of one's intellectual skill-set or talent. The team's objective is to run trials of different battery and invertor parts and introduce them into manufacturing. There are issues with team's co-ordination where they have to source parts from different suppliers and co-ordinate with quality, manufacturing and process teams to run the trials. The team is not good at proper co-ordination between cross functional team issues and struggles to meet its deadlines. Improper decisions by team often results in lot of rework, project delays and manufacturing costs. It really needs to work on its internal processes and encourage its constructive criticism as a benefit for the company. Any difference of scientific thought process is not appreciated and may result in negative employee appraisal by the managers. The team hires graduate college interns non technical/ non skilled works like printing labels, posters and stuff which definitely does not add to there technical knowledge. Any request for good technical projects tends to labeling the people as poor performance ratings. Interns are often used as scapegoats for failed milestones. Any request for transfer to different technical teams within the company is not encouraged by NPI managers and results in negative false review which could hinder there future employment scope in this great company. If you want to join Tesla with a dream of excelling in your career, bring some innovation, do challenging projects to bring a change there are various other wonderful teams which appreciate your talent and hard work and have the courage to bring a change in company by self improvement.

3.0
May 15, 2018
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Pros

Exciting, Dynamic and interesting company to work for. I feel that I'm apart of something potentially world changing and not just working my (bad language) off to make others richer. Unlimited opportunity to learn and grow professionally for the lucky few that can find their own way out of the production line grind. 60 hour weeks are the norm and they'd let me work 7 days a week if I wanted to. They have free cereal, pretzels and soda in the cafeteria.

Cons

No one seems interested in my career goals. They just want to keep me where I am pumping out widgets. I've been trying to move to another shift for two months now and management has been uninterested in assisting with this. Threatening to quit seems to be the only way to get their attention. Formal training is very lacking. You literally get taught by a person that started a week or two ago and barely knows what they are doing. They constantly reference the "M.I." procedures (Manufacturing Instructions), but when I ask for time to read the M.I. or even take it home to review it on my own time, I met with blank stares and ambiguous answers. Negative feedback seems like the norm from my direct management. Don't just tell me what I'm doing wrong at any given moment. How about training me in the right way to do it before hand and then maybe providing corrections and praise after the fact? They've had challenges paying me correctly and my PTO requests for vacation /sicks days have been mishandled both times I submitted them. At minimum, a company should handle pay and PTO correctly. After much effort on my part, they eventually corrected the problems and but didn't bother to say "...sorry, we'll get it right next time..." I don't have confidence they will. I do have confidence they don't really care. Nothing shows your employees that you don't care about them more than pay and PTO issues. Management, at least in my area, is very young and inexperienced and making it up as they go. They would benefit greatly from some basic managerial training before giving them people to lead. Management is solely focused on making ever increasing productions numbers. As a result, product quality and moral is suffering, but hey, at least we're making our numbers.

1.0
Jan 22, 2018
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Pros

Saving the world, blah blah blah, free jacket, decent WiFi at work, the cars are pretty. Too bad you can’t afford them.

Cons

The worst management I’ve ever seen. Truly, not being dramatic. The clients are treated like zombies, they don’t want to buy the high priced cars, everyone’s waiting for the 3, factories aren’t producing them so Tesla can keep its good deal with the government to burn through the tax credits so we keep trump afloat. Maybe they’re closer friends than we thought? Managers drinking on the job AND THEN DRIVING THE TEST DRIVE CARS, using cars for personal use and driving them into the ground, selling broken cars and abandoning customers (there’s actually a tab in salesforce that days abandoned customer so apparently this is a thing that happens). Absolutely terrible company with how it treats its customers, I’m truly appalled and will never spend my own money here, or recommend it. If I can get out any faster I will, but the extremely low minimum wage pay doesn’t give you much to save from. What’s that? I work in sales so if I want to make more just sell more? Yeah that’s a great idea, until your conniving manager takes clients out of your book and gives it to your coworker who cut a deal to give her a throwback on his commission. And you thought wolf of wall street was unethical.

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