Tesla cuts all but three of its 3,400 listed jobs in North America
Anna Moneymaker
- Tesla cut over 3,400 North American job postings down to just three.
- The hiring freeze comes after Tesla's challenging first quarter, marked by layoffs and missed earnings.
- Tesla's official careers page and LinkedIn showed different results.
If Tesla is your dream company, you'll have to compete for one of just three listed US jobs.
On Wednesday, the electric vehicle maker cut over 3,400 job postings in North America to just three. The now-axed roles, which were mostly in California, Texas, and Nevada, were listed on Tesla's official careers page as recently as Tuesday, according to a Quartz analysis of archived pages.
The hiring freeze comes after one of Tesla's hardest quarters. The company went through a wave of "hardcore" layoffs and saw at least six executives leave. In a series of back-to-back blows, the company's first-quarter earnings missed estimates by nearly every measure, it recalled nearly 4,000 Cybertrucks, and it entered a price war with Chinese EV rivals teaming up against the company.
Even the three US roles that remain don't appear to be full-time jobs, although they are labeled as such. They're for Tesla's "manufacturing development program," a seven- to 16-week training program at community colleges in Texas and California that gives applicants an "opportunity to transition into a full-time Production Associate." The Nevada version of the program is marked as an internship and is only four to six weeks long, according to Tesla's website.
Tesla revoked summer internship offers last week, just weeks before start dates.
There are 28 jobs listed in Europe on Tesla's website, mostly in Tesla's Brandenburg Gigafactory in Germany. There are none posted in any other region outside Europe.
Tesla's career page and its LinkedIn don't seem to be in sync.
On LinkedIn, the company advertised 35 openings on Thursday, including the three in the US and the 28 in Europe. It also added some roles in the Dominican Republic on Thursday — these roles have been listed in Mandarin.
The automaker announced it would cut over 10% of its 140,000 employees in April, but people inside the company told Bloomberg that they expect that over 20,000 people may be asked to leave.
Tesla did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment, sent outside standard business hours.