Elon Musk’s latest cost-cutting victims: summer interns.
Tesla Inc. is withdrawing offers just weeks before internships begin, prompting would-be employees to recruit other employers for them on LinkedIn.
“At 8:46 a.m. I opened one Tesla Email for flight information. “At 11:25 a.m. my internship offer was gone.” wrote Miami University student Joshua Schreiber said his start date continues to be three weeks away and he has already spent “thousands on housing.”
Like many other aspiring Tesla interns, Schreiber is dangerously approaching the top of the college 12 months. They say the surprise calls from Tesla informing students that their offers were now not valid gave them loads of time to search out substitute jobs for the summer.
In one case, a current Tesla worker posted her own virtual network on LinkedIn and asked her to rent one in every of the interns soon to begin on the automaker. “Please make our loss your gain!” wrote Diana Rosenberg, who based on her profile works in battery supply at Tesla.
Rosenberg blamed the carmaker’s massive layoffs for the choice to withdraw the internship offer.
Last month, Musk announced that Tesla “has made the difficult decision to reduce our global workforce by more than 10%.” Since then, several executives have left the corporate as Musk pushed for more cuts. As Bloomberg News reported, many of the company’s 500-employee Supercharger division and its newly formed marketing department were disbanded.
People conversant in Musk’s considering said the billionaire is decided to scale back headcount as electric vehicle sales decline and heavy spending on his robotaxi dreams. They say Musk is aiming for a 20% reduction, Bloomberg reported.
Rescinding internship offers probably won’t save Tesla much money. At least one in every of the positions was unpaid, while paid internships on the automaker typically cost $18 to $28 an hour, based on Glassdoor.
However, the choices will impact the corporate’s hiring pipeline: More than 3,000 university and community college students from world wide are hired for Tesla internships annually, based on the corporate Impact report. “Do meaningful work from day one,” it says Company website for interns.
The move also provided students with a transparent life lesson.
“Rejection is redirection” wrote Brook Gura, a communications student on the University of Texas at Austin, said she received a call that her offer had been withdrawn three weeks before her start date as a part of the corporate’s mass layoffs. “Although I’m incredibly disappointed that I won’t have the summer I wanted, I know this moment will only help me grow stronger as a professional.”
Gura, Schreiber and Rosenberg declined to comment beyond their posts. Musk didn’t reply to a request for comment.
