Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,963 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 11,963 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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1.0
Mar 12, 2023

No life

Recommend
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Pros

-Looks good on resume -Benefits -People were friendly

Cons

- Low wage - Can be sent to work at any other location if needed - Have to meet unrealistic sales quotas. They don’t want to call them quotas and they tell you that “we aren’t salesman” but that’s only because they tried to alter the definitions of the word and role. There are definitely quotas and you are most definitely a car salesman. - You are expected to go through over 50 emails per day and follow up with customers in every phase of their purchase all the way into post delivery. - highly unorganized organization - hours are long, half hour breaks, and rarely do you ever go home on time - you will work weekends so say goodbye to your social life. Instead they’ll give you some terrible midweek days off. -End of the quarter they don’t even want you taking vacations because the work load gets even more extreme. - you would think an organization like Tesla would be more organized but it’s not. They give you 4 different apps to use that are still very much in beta testing phases and expect you to know how to use them inside out very quickly. - the trainings are nonsense and don’t teach you anything - constantly feel like you have to meet targets or else your job is on the chopping block - cult like organization. - I feel unethical about even selling cars in an organization like this because of what I know is going on behind the scenes.

2.0
Feb 1, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

-Dev team is amazing, great partnerships, smart and willing to get the job done -The stock made me lots of $ -I had an amazing 5 1/2 year run with lots of amazing opportunities

Cons

-TA leadership, along with the total lack of leadership in HR -Toxic environment -No work life balance

1.0
Feb 2, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Team members in AI department on the same wavelength/emotions. - Workflows themselves can be interesting and sometimes not so difficult. - Benefits are decent. - Base pay is barely decent, but increases are unlikely or very low.

Cons

- Constant, borderline retaliation-level threatening to confine people to work in-office for no valid reason. - Censorship of those who speak up, some have been fired or just have their messages deleted. - Culture of burnout and quitting, Tesla prefers to exhaust it's employees to the maximum every day, forcing many to leave. This is preferred compared to firing employees since Tesla can avoid paying unemployment. - "Learning opportunities" aka "do more work, but no pay raise or title"

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