Tesla has slashed 3,400 job postings across North America –down to just 3

Tesla connected Wednesday yanked thousands of unfastened positions successful North America from its charismatic careers page, bringing nan full number of unfastened roles astatine nan electrical conveyance elephantine down to conscionable 3 from 3,400.

As of Thursday, Elon Musk’s Austin, Texas-based car patient boasted conscionable 3 positions connected nan occupation committee connected its website and connected LinkedIn, Quartz earlier reported.

The roles were each to subordinate Tesla’s manufacturing teams successful either Texas; Fremont, Calif.; aliases Sparks, Nev. — nan carmaker’s 3 awesome mill hubs successful nan US.

The full-time positions, however, were really internship programs pinch nan opportunity for employment coming astatine nan extremity of nan period.

The listings inquire for entry-level applicants to subordinate a “manufacturing improvement program,” wherever “program participants will complete a rigorous 4-6-week danasiwa successful Advanced Manufacturing, use skills arsenic a Production Associate astatine Gigafactory Nevada pursuing people completion and gain a Production Operator Certification aft 2000 hours of connected nan occupation learning,” according to nan occupation description.

Upon completion of nan program, there’s an “opportunity to modulation into a full-time Production Associate” astatine a Tesla factory.

The listings did not see compensation for nan long of nan program, but said that healthcare plans done Aetna, including dental and imagination sum would beryllium provided pinch options that see $0 payroll deductions.

The 3 unfastened intern positions are a acold outcry from nan 3,400 postings astatine Tesla that were being offered crossed nan United States, Mexico, Canada and Puerto Rico arsenic of May 1, according to Quartz.

The evident hiring frost comes aft a activity of occupation cuts that CEO Musk described arsenic “hard core,” which included six executive exits.

The automaker announced it would trim much than 10% of its 140,000 labor successful April, but group wrong nan institution told Bloomberg they expected that much than 20,000 group whitethorn beryllium asked to leave.

Tesla has besides precocious disbanded its EV charging department, and arsenic precocious arsenic Monday, nan institution reportedly laid disconnected unit from nan software, work and engineering departments, according to tech publication Electrek, citing sources acquainted pinch nan matter.

The institution disclosed in notices last period that it will laic disconnected much than 6,700 labor crossed its locations successful Texas, California, Nevada and New York.

Tesla disclosed past period that it expects to book much than $350 cardinal successful costs successful nan 2nd 4th for nan wide layoffs. The occupation cuts besides included an exodus of apical executives, including Drew Baglino, Rohan Patel, Rebecca Tinucci and Daniel Ho.

The EV patient has been nether unit from dropping income and an intensifying value warfare among automakers arsenic elevated liking rates person slowed nan take of EVs.

The institution is looking to attraction on autonomous driving software, robotaxis and its humanoid robot Optimus, and Musk could beryllium cutting its spending connected definite teams to sphere rate for those projects, analysts person said.

Representatives for Tesla did not instantly respond to The Post’s petition for comment.