Tesla revokes offer to interns weeks before their start date

Amid a massive layoffs wave, Electric car maker Tesla has revoked the offers to interns just weeks before the internships were set to start, reported Bloomberg. The employees who were offered internship took to LinkedIn to appeal to other employers to take them in.

Tesla revokes offers

A Miami University student Joshua Schreiber who was set to start the internship in three weeks said that his internship offer was gone. Schreiber had already spent “thousands on housing.”

“At 8:46am, I opened a Tesla email for flight info. By 11:25am, my internship offer was gone,” wrote Miami University student Joshua Schreiber

Like Schreiber, many other would-be interns at Tesla are nearing their college end term and are now left with less time to find replacement gigs for the summer. Brook Gura, a communications student at the University of Texas at Austin said that she got a call that her offer was yanked three weeks before her start date as part of the company’s mass layoffs. In a post she wrote, "Rejection is redirection. While I am incredibly disappointed that I will not have the summer I intended to have, I know that this moment will only help me grow stronger as a professional"

Meanwhile, a current employee at Tesla asked her virtual network to hire one of the interns who was meant to start soon at the carmaker. “Please make our loss your gain!” wrote Diana Rosenberg, who works in battery supply at Tesla, according to her profile.

She further blamed the decision to rescind the intern offer on the massive layoffs unfolding at the carmaker.

Tesla Internship salaries

As per Glassdoor, at least one of the posts was for an unpaid position, while paid internships at the automaker typically offer $18 to $28 an hour. As per Tesla's last impact report, more than 3,000 university and community college students from around the world are hired for Tesla internships each year.

Rescinding the offer decision is likely to have an impact in the company’s hiring pipeline.

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