Tesla

• Decent starting pay.
• Access to 3rd party food trucks during lunch break.
• Being able to see what it's like in a factory.
• Plenty of PPE provided.
• Stocks and health benefits.
• Learn lots of new manufacturing stuff and get a nice job title on your resume.

Management doesn't know what they are doing.

People get promoted based on connections more than merit. Most of management are related to each other. One manager may hook up his burger-flipping, minimum-wage cousin with a six-figure manager position at Tesla.

Low quality standards. Lots of ghetto people building your luxury cars and only care about a paycheck.

Lack of accountability. If you care about doing a good job and someone who doesn't care causes a huge quality issue, they get a slap on the wrist. You end up having to stress for multiple weeks to resolve the issue. That same person will still be back on that station producing defects and may get promoted. You won't get promoted because the defects are still your problem, and defect flowout is a reflection of you.

Managers hardly care about the employees they oversee. Managers will be hanging together, sharing stupid memes on their phones or shopping on Amazon, while the line workers are sweating like crazy and getting injured.

Injuries are frowned upon. Management doesn't like it when you report injuries; they like keeping a high safety score. However, they also give you crap and consider you incompetent if you do get injured.

No 401k matching.

Slow or no career trajectory. If management doesn't know how to succeed, they sure won't know how to help you succeed. Many managers are still lost little boys and girls who've miraculously made it to middle age.

Safety issues. If you report a safety or ergonomics issue, better expect multiple people to get injured first before they'll do anything about it.

12-16 hour work shifts are not uncommon.

HR is a complete joke. They will give you the runaround. They are very condescending and don't care about you. They have a "take it or leave it" attitude. They are not there to resolve any actual problems, but rather to keep deflecting until you quit.

IT support staff are rather condescending. Some people are nice, but most will think you are stupid. They think they are gods on the computer and have no interpersonal skills. Most are recent college graduates who came from middle-class backgrounds, so they do not know how to be humble and nice.

Fix the safety issues.

Get feedback from the line workers and people who are actually using the tools/machines. Don't assume things are working correctly just because the engineer or maintenance tech says it's okay. They don't work the lines.

Restructure your HR department to hire people who actually want to solve issues, not people who want to deflect. Conduct psychological tests on hires.

Stop building teams of lost people. You'll have lost productivity, and people will just be zombies. No wonder half the factory goes out to their cars and smokes weed during lunch breaks.

Quit allowing buddy-buddy and homie-hookup hiring. Everyone can see what is going on, and it's killing integrity.