Tesla

• Great pastoral setting in Deer Creek with horses all around.
• Free cereal and soda.
• Smart and fun coworkers; lots of trips planned outside of work, hanging out, and exercising together.
• Oftentimes, you can get a lot of responsibility if you seek it.
• Opportunities to pick up many new skills if you are self-motivated.

• Very difficult to switch groups; internal mobility is low.
• Effective mentorship and growth opportunities are nonexistent for junior engineers. A lot of engineering is done "on the fly" by inexperienced people.
• Decisions from executive management often seem arbitrary and designed for short-term stock goals, as opposed to long-term strategy.
• Tendency to hire overqualified people for mundane tasks, not follow through on promises made during recruitment, and then fire those who get pigeon-holed into working on things well below their pay grade.

Engage core engineers more frequently, rather than only sitting in closed-door meetings with middle management all the time.