Tesla

You will get to work on exciting products that have the potential of changing the world. You will be surrounded by very smart, hardworking individuals. The caliber of people working at Tesla is very high.

• Benefits are poor. Older reviews will tell you the benefits are good, and that was true until Jan 2018. The benefits are now mediocre at best.

• Upper management double-speak. I work on the energy products side of the business. We have always been lowest priority from a resource standpoint. We are constantly told that the projects we were working on were important to the business, but were then given no resources to complete the projects.

• Elon fires people just because he's mad, not because they actually deserved it.

• Management has no clear plan. Over a year ago, all the office staff knew we were stretched too thin between Model 3, semi truck, and the multiple energy products we were working on. Projects have been pushed out, pulled in, pushed back out, and put on hold numerous times over the past year because management can't figure out what their plan is.

• Everyone is scared to death of Elon (because of random firings), so no one is willing to challenge him. This is not a healthy culture.

• You are treated as disposable. Don't expect to be treated well for sacrificing all of your time and energy for this company. They will use you up and throw you out. More times than I can remember, people have worked absurd hours for months on end and then were let go.

• Upper management is clearly out of its depth. On the Model 3, we have wasted 1 year of production time and millions of dollars on production lines that don’t work and that will never work because Tesla didn’t provide an explicit statement of work to the production line vendor, and they didn’t deliver what we thought they would deliver. That was completely Tesla’s fault. Because of that, we have been losing money for the past year instead of making cars and just had layoffs of 9% of the company. Those people probably would all still have jobs if management knew what they were doing.

Hire someone from Detroit who knows how to do general assembly. Having body panels misaligned is inexcusable.