Tesla is a huge company, employs 140,000 people As of the end of last year. But last month Layoffs have rocked the electric vehicle maker – and now there appears to be a hiring freeze in effect in North America.
As of Wednesday, right now Three positions were listed on Tesla’s job board. They are all looking for jobs for the Manufacturing Development Program in Texas. Californiaor Nevada, a seven-week training program that promises the “opportunity to transition into a full-time production worker” at a Tesla factory.
That’s a far cry from the more than 3,400 job postings available in the United States, Mexico, Canada and Puerto Rico, according to a May 1 report Archived version of the Tesla careers website. (Puerto Rico is listed separately, although it is a U.S. territory.) The bulk of those positions were in California, Texas and Nevada, where the company has sprawling “gigafactories.” Many of the jobs were published on Tesla’s website on Tuesday.
Tesla advertises 326 jobs on LinkedIn. Most are in China, a few more in Europe and at least one in the Dominican Republic. Only one, for the manufacturing development programappears to be in the USA
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
This is the second time since Tesla has almost completely deleted its job postings began laying off thousands of workers on April 16. Drive Tesla reported on it later in the day almost all job advertisements across the company’s North American operations have been removed. Just a few days later, The job board has been restored with thousands of posts.
“With [Tesla’s] Due to rapid growth, there have been duplication of roles and job functions in certain areas,” said the CEO Elon Musk wrote to employees last month when he informed her about the job cuts. “As we prepare the company for our next phase of growth, it is critical to examine every aspect of the business with a view to reducing costs and increasing productivity.”
“There is nothing I hate more, but it must be done,” he added, expressing his thanks and good wishes for the – at least – 14,000 laid-off workers.
In recent weeks, Musk has been less apologetic about the workforce cuts. In an email to senior Tesla executives: first reported by The InformationMusk said he wanted to be “absolutely tough” about further job cuts.
He also said he would ask to resign any executive who employs more than three people who “clearly fail the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test.” At least three executives left the company later that week.
More than 20,000 people may have been laid off in this first round of workforce cuts, Bloomberg reported last month. Offers for summer internships have been withdrawn just a few weeks before their start date. Almost the entire supercharger division was canceledalthough Tesla is a major player in the electric vehicle charging industry and its public policy team has been significantly reduced.
Tesla experienced its fourth consecutive week of layoffs on Monday, with the latest round affecting service advisors, human resources staff, product engineers, industrialization engineers and more.
“Last night at 7:24 p.m. Elon Musk added me to his massive layoff team, costing me my career, my health benefits and my sanity,” a now-former Tesla employee wrote on LinkedIn on Monday. “Nothing but an email to make us aware of how available we were as employees.”
At least six high-profile executives have done so either already resigned or plan later this year, including former senior vice president of powertrain and energy Drew Baglinoand Senior Director of Human Resources for North America Allie Arebalo.
This article originally appeared on quartz.