It's now a disorganized Tesla - Engineer Form Energy Employee Review

3.0
Nov 3, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

My direct management is reasonable on demands, personally cares about me, and pleasant to work for. The company still has great potential in a personally fulfilling industry with demonstrated high demand for the product if we can make it work reliably at a reasonable cost. So, I am still hoping my equity will be worth a lot eventually but is it worth the cost to get there?

Cons

It's a company founded and originally staffed by a bunch of scientists that are now trying to quickly make a product after the science was proven. I joined around when things started going south in these reviews, and agree with most of the recent ones. I have never worked in such a disorganized, messy, out of touch, and demanding work environment. People are frequently posting/bragging on Slack about how they were working over the weekend or late. It's not clear if the executives are unaware of how things are going at ground level, or ignoring it. Lately there have also been a disconcerting number of people fired. If your area of responsibility happens to fall behind the very aggressive development schedule and you do not fix it immediately you will be shown the door. Many of the newly hired managers and executives are ex-Tesla, and it is showing in the culture.

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5.0
Apr 6, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fast paced company trying to do something very challenging. Great place to learn and grow, but you must be self-driven and ok with rapidly changing dynamics.

Cons

Timelines are always too aggressive and never get hit. Demoralizing for the team.

2.0
Dec 22, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

For first time employment it’s a good start. The work experience can take you a long way professionally. This company also won’t fire employees outside of normal layoffs phases or serious violations of company policies (illegal actions).

Cons

TLDR: toxic environment/classism/racism/deceptive benefits This place is a good place to learn but not grow. Once you’ve learned what others deem as enough your position responsibilities will grow to compensate managers and scientists failing to meet expectations. Management expects direct reports to not challenge wrongful practices and discourages employee empowerment (or basic rights). There were also some racism issues making professional development challenging for POCs. A lot of employees don’t say anything because of retaliation and the state of the economy allow these issues to run unchecked. Benefits are bare bones and leave medical providers speechless. There are a couple kind benefits but management and HR take issue to researching and asking about benefits. Expectations also include working long after working hours, lowest level employees being held responsible for management failures, working through injury, working through any time off not PTO, working while sick, having to take inperson meetings with sick managers, flexible working schedules being used against employees, and finally the biggest expectation is to be friendly with management and report wrongdoings of other employees be it wasting time or questioning management practices.

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