Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,980 total reviews)
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Elon Musk

59% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Tesla has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 11,980 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 Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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12K reviews
1.0
Aug 18, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cool mission to be a part of. The cars are awesome even if they are overpriced.

Cons

They fire sales people a lot and for no reason. They ask you to do the tasks of sales people who get paid 50k per year at least but pay you hourly just as much as someone working at a shoe store. They closed my entire store and fired everybody even managers (in a bizarre and unapologetic way) then opened it back up a few weeks later and try to re employ everyone. Besides the risk of being fired ay any second by being in sales at Tesla there is a bigger issue; throughout my 14 months at Tesla "management" would constantly raise team and individual goals in blatant efforts to NOT PAY us by making sure we didn't reach their goals so we wouldn't earn any extra bonus or commission. They will tell you work hard for promotion then hire externally anyway.

1.0
Jul 23, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Insurance is helpful. *Bonus* Tesla partners with a loan provider so you can borrow the money they are not paying you.

Cons

Upper Management from Elon, down has no idea how to run a company. There is no sense being used. This is not innovative in the slightest. It is more like someone thinks up an idea, no one thinks it through, no one listens to the objections from the people on the floor saying “it’s been done before” or “this would make that work”, it is running full force at a wall and expecting it to cave because you want it to. There is no forethought behind change. Do not join this sinking ship! Look up articles and reviews. There is no one happy with Tesla inside or out, that isn’t a complete Fan. Customers are irate because they are flat out lied to. Employees, scratch that Executives, WALK OUT daily. No one that learns the truth wants to be a part of this bait and switch company.

1.0
Jul 15, 2019

A company plagued by incompetence and overworking employees.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Tesla has a good goal and could be an important company.

Cons

In my time in the Finance department I have seen consistent poor decision making from the top down. Desicions often seem reactionary and poorly thought out. Mid and upper management has become a revolving door with each new manager comes a change in direction complicating and compounding issues affecting the jobs of those below them. Promotions and hiring are stalled as all expenses have to be approve by CEO himself resulting in causing some employees to work excessively, on occasions past midnight and into the early morning. Unfortunately this work seems expected and is rarely acknowledged and almost never rewarded. It seems that Tesla is caught in a dangerous loop of ignorance and cult of personality around its CEO that is preventing it from solving it's own issues. I would not recommend working here for long.

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