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Elon Musk’s Tesla quietly slashed over 3,400 job postings, leaving simply 3 listed within the U.S.



Dreaming of a profession at Elon Musk’s visionary electrical automobile large Tesla? Then you definitely’ll must compete for one in every of simply three jobs obtainable in case you’re primarily based in America, as a result of the $547 billion firm has simply quietly slashed hundreds of listings. 

Till as just lately as Tuesday, Tesla was promoting greater than 3,400 job postings throughout the US, Mexico, Canada and Puerto Rico—the majority of which have been in California, Texas, and Nevada, based on Quartz’s evaluation of archived pages.

The entire roles, from prototype automobile operators to building carpenters have since been axed—and all that is still are three spots on Tesla’s Manufacturing Improvement Program.

However they don’t seem like full-time jobs—at first, at the very least—with two of the adverts boasting that profitable candidates might want to full 7 to 16 weeks of coaching (relying on whether or not you apply for the gig in Texas or California) earlier than having the “alternative to transition” into Manufacturing Affiliate. No guarantees. 

In the meantime, the third Manufacturing Improvement Program opening in Nevada is barely 4 to 6 weeks lengthy and is particularly marked as an internship solely, based on Tesla’s web site.

Nonetheless wish to be a part of Musk’s imaginative and prescient for Tesla to change into the way forward for “fixing autonomy” for driverless automobiles?

Then you definitely’ll must “stoop, lay, bend, attain, squat, kneel, crouch, twist and crawl for prolonged intervals of time, together with as much as 12 hours a day,” based on the job description. 

Hopeful new hires may also want to have the ability to “carry 20 lbs. up and down stairs,” be okay with “exposures to hazardous supplies,” and be open to working flexibly “together with days, nights, in a single day, and/or weekends.” 

Fortune has reached out to Tesla for remark.

Bother in paradise at Tesla 

Make no mistake, Tesla has massive objectives—with Musk proclaiming that the enterprise will reach its mission to unravel autonomy, even when he’s “kidnapped by aliens” —and it was using over 140,000 individuals as of late final yr to assist obtain these lofty ambitions. 

However in latest months, after recalling thousands and thousands of its automobiles and watching automobile gross sales begin to decline, the corporate has been hit by layoffs, hiring freezes and senior resignations.

“With [Tesla’s] fast progress there was duplication of roles and job capabilities in sure areas,” Musk wrote to workers final month, as he defined that at the very least 14,000 employees have been set to lose their jobs. “There’s nothing I hate extra, nevertheless it should be accomplished.”

Since then, workers gotten layoff notices in waves over the course of 4 weeks. “I preserve ready for Elon to ship one other electronic mail and inform us they’re lastly accomplished firing individuals,” one present Tesla employee instructed Enterprise Insider.

Simply final week, Musk sacked Tesla’s total Supercharger staff, together with his highest-ranking feminine govt, and unapologetically instructed employees that he’s going to be “completely hardcore” with layoffs and cost-cutting.

“Whereas some on exec employees are taking this significantly, most aren’t but doing so,” the tech billionaire who additionally owns SpaceX and X, previously generally known as Twitter, added. 

Then Tesla’s high HR govt (and one other one of many firm’s most senior ladies), Allie Arebalo, handed in her discover—becoming a member of a handful of different senior leaders to vote with their toes and resign from the at present tumultuous tech agency.

Even Drew Baglino, the corporate’s former senior vice chairman in command of powertrain engineering and a number one contender to interchange one-day Musk on the Tesla throne, has cashed out. Baglino just lately liquidated just about his total stake within the firm—price $181 million—days after leaving the corporate.

Now, the corporate has slashed its summer season internship program to chop prices, and younger aspiring workers have been instructed their presents have been retracted simply weeks earlier than they have been attributable to begin work.

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