New Product Introduction (NPI) Team, Tesla Gigafactory
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.