Exciting products, great team environment, but top-down driven… with no idea about tomorrow’s direction
Exciting products, great team environment, but top-down driven… with no idea about tomorrow’s direction
Great, brilliant co-workers. Great health benefits. Decent severance package for when that RIF comes.
Elon's singular focus on cars caused him to lose 60-70% of Renewable Solar sales that they had from Tesla's acquisition of SolarCity. SolarCity had >30% of the US residential solar market, now squandered to a sub-par 10%. And had to drop Tesla's workforce by 20% in 2018, in part due to this. Is this the plan of a shrewd businessman? I think not. Enter at your own risk.
Pay is a bit low for the output required compared to similar tech outfits. To keep it looking okay, titles are kept low so a comparison of salaries as a function of title looks okay on Glassdoor.
No separate sick days. These come out of your annual vacation days.
They got rid of cash and immediate stock bonuses. Bonuses all vest, so if you are stellar, awesome, 10% bonus... which you won't see unless you stick around for 4 more years. E.g., if you are stellar for 4 years then leave, at 10% bonus vesting 25% each year, your last year you won't see any of it, and your average bonus will really only be 3.75%. Awesome?
(Yes, even with these complaints, I'd recommend to a friend, at least for a little while.)
Do better up-front work so you don't have to go through 'manufacturing hell' at every NPI phase.
Reward your employees more immediately.
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Product Development Engineer
Take-home assignment that was way longer than necessary. Would not recommend pursuing unless you want to waste hours of your own time to complete their assignment. It is open-ended, but that leads to wasting a lot of the candidate's time.
Mechanical Design Engineer
There were a total of three rounds. The first was a technical screening. The next round was a panel. It was a very slow process as well, which felt like a waste of time.
Global Battery Manufacturing Engineering
The interview mostly consisted of questions about my coding experience, with a heavy emphasis on machine learning, as that is the interviewers' field. It ended up being very informal, and I believe it was more of a questionnaire than an interview du
Product Development Engineer
CanadaSeptember 11, 2019Take-home assignment that was way longer than necessary. Would not recommend pursuing unless you want to waste hours of your own time to complete their assignment. It is open-ended, but that leads to wasting a lot of the candidate's time.
Mechanical Design Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesDecember 9, 2023There were a total of three rounds. The first was a technical screening. The next round was a panel. It was a very slow process as well, which felt like a waste of time.
Global Battery Manufacturing Engineering
San Francisco, California, United StatesOctober 1, 2021The interview mostly consisted of questions about my coding experience, with a heavy emphasis on machine learning, as that is the interviewers' field. It ended up being very informal, and I believe it was more of a questionnaire than an interview du
