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Smart Team, Busy Manager

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Tesla for 2 years
February 14, 2019
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros
  • Noble Mission
  • Bonding with team members (minus the manager)
  • Learning from intelligent engineers
Cons
  • No work-life balance.
  • Hard work and accomplishments can easily go unnoticed by a manager who is too busy with their duties, which are not managerial specific.
  • Inefficient communication between marketing and technology leads to wasted efforts and frustration.
Advice to Management

Please have all the managers go through a workshop to learn how to acknowledge their engineers' hard work. Sooner or later, the engineers will figure out that they are not treated well and will leave Tesla.

Regarding the "Workaholic Culture," I understand that it is a necessity to accomplish something great, but it really does not take that much effort to acknowledge the hard work your employees put in. A simple "thank you for your hard work" each quarter would do, but that seemed too hard for them to do.

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