Tesla reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(11,939 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 11,939 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 Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Mar 22, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Brand, mission, product, and some awesome team members.

Cons

My move to Tesla was always intended to be a career move for me. I was incredibly passionate, proud and motivated about going to work for Tesla, its mission, and the exciting professional journey that I hoped lay ahead of me. It is with tangible disappointment that I leave - the experience soured by a culture and business practices poisoned by poor leadership.

2.0
Jun 14, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Drive great cars - Road trips - Events - Late start times - Looks good on the CV

Cons

- work-life balance, you will be made to work at stupid hours with no notice and have days off cancelled without warning, good luck maintaining a healthy relationship with your other half - progression does not exist unless you happen to make friends with the right people at the right time and don't stand up for yourself and say yes to everything - people in my team would work for the equivalent of less than minimum wage when considering the hours they would put in - product specialist role is very very dull but sold as a dream. You will not get the chance to learn anything through the training program, in the 2 years I was there I had three training days, most of which were completely unfounded on truth or established practices. - I hope you like waiting on expenses for three months - no commission, even before the commision was laughable...if you sold a £50K used car you could potentially expect £5 commission and it wouldn't count towards your target - travelling to events should be compensated for and not done on days off, however, this is the case every time - staff turnover, this is a particularly big issue within my team there were 6 sales staff in a team of 10 that left or were fired in less than 2 years and across the UK every week there was someone else that left in all levels of positions - do you have a good laptop? are you willing to use it at work? no? don't join, you won't get anywhere.

1.0
Jul 30, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great product - great vision, Get to travel and see many cool places Get to drive these awesome cars

Cons

Forget personal life - your days off are cancelled or changed at the last moment, you often are expected to work late or work on your day off There area no clear responsibilities at all, management changes its mind every 5 seconds, in the end you end up so confused on what the hec you really supposed to be doing and feel like a looser all time There was no equipment to do your job properly e.g. in our store there are 16 staff and only 4PC and 4 phones (which don't function properly 70% of the time) so unless you have your own laptop and use your personal phone (which in theory you should not be using for work) your are more or less doomed as you wont be able to meet your targets But the worst part of the job for me was - constant let down of customer expectations: - most sales advisers (at least in our store) are so arrogant they really don't give the customer the respect or time they deserve, - test drive bookings - being cancelled right left and centre, - when the customer comes for the appointment it is often made wait for ages before it is actually taking out for a drive - trade in quotes are not being submitted - in the last few weeks of me working at Tesla, I have also had chance to witness the state of the cars that are being delivered to customers - and is just hmm bad, seriously bad, not even one car out of 9 has been delivered in the condition that it should be according to our policies and procedures. Is just so sole destroying to be apologising to your clients all the time for not your own errors.

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