Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,987 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 11,987 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
2.0
Aug 16, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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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.

2.0
Jul 12, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Opportunities to move up a level or two if you're willing to relocate are abundant -Get to meet all kinds of people and build relationships that can turn into other opportunities -You will learn the job quickly and also learn how to improvise in less-then-ideal situations to turn it around -You get to be around $100k cars that can drive themselves and take them out for a spin here and there

Cons

-You will be working for Tesla for the mission, NOT THE PAY, which is probably less than you're worth -Since the company is still growing, the roles are often intertwined/blurred and you will not be compensated justly (or at all) for it -A typical work week is a minimum of 40 hrs, each end of quarter can hit a minimum of 60 hr work weeks for 2-4 weeks -You might be pressured to not have a social life, as your new family and friends will be Tesla -Working for Tesla is very idealized and put on a pedestal: everyone must drive a Tesla , major discounts on the car, everyone has met Elon, everyone makes a lot of money- NO, probably 5% have met Elon and drive new Teslas, 20% make enough money to buy a used Tesla. -The list could go on

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