Tesla slashes its summer internship program to cut costs, as Elon Musk fights to save his $45 billion pay plan

https://fortune.com/2024/05/01/tesla-slashes-summer-internship-program/

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  1. AI Summary:

    * **Tesla’s Internship Cuts**: Tesla Inc. has rescinded internship offers, affecting students like Joshua Schreiber who had already made arrangements for their internships.
    * **Layoffs and Cost-Cutting**: Elon Musk announced a 10% global headcount reduction at Tesla, with further cuts leading to a targeted 20% reduction.
    * **Impact on Students**: The revoked offers have left many students scrambling for alternative summer employment opportunities.
    * **Company’s Hiring Pipeline**: Tesla’s decision could affect its hiring pipeline, as it typically hires over 3,000 interns annually from universities and colleges worldwide.

  2. Murky-Silver-8877 on

    These don’t even move the needle on savings toward one billion.

  3. Emergency_Gold_2211 on

    “You’re all going to lose your jobs. We’re going to make cuts everywhere!

    I’m also going to get $45 billion because I work so hard that I deserve it.”

    Musk is rocking Capitalism!

  4. AdditionalMeeting467 on

    He’s in full “extract as much value from the company as you can” mode. Willing to burn it all to the ground so he can have even more money he’ll never spend.

  5. Imagine all the hours pouring into studies, exams, applications; rinsing and repeating and getting a chance to finally prove yourself to the world — only for some petty “cost cuts”.

    Its sad how that program was seen as costs, not a future of talent in their workforce.

  6. charcoalist on

    Yes it’s those greedy interns with their lavish pizza parties that are weighing down the company’s finances.

  7. Those companies and investors seem to forget, that while it is indeed impressive if you can reduce the size of the company while keeping the same market share, if you fail at the second part of that sentence, then all you’ve accomplished is you’ve just made your company smaller.

  8. SetoKeating on

    I know it’s not funny but I can’t help but laugh at the students that were coming across my feed over the last couple of months with the “I will be joining Tesla this summer as an intern….”’and then the reply from Tesla “we are so happy to have you….”

  9. DangerousAd1731 on

    Idk if it’s good or bad but my company has had great results with summer intern program and placement of grads, insurance

  10. Additional-Hat6160 on

    I have given up on my plans to buy a tesla. I am glad the refreshed Y was delayed. I’d have one right now if it came out with the model 3.

    I won’t support this. He is ruining the company trying to get money a judge denied him for fraud. It is obvious he is trying to artificially boost the stock by doctoring the balance sheet to convince large shareholders to approve of his 55 billion dollar grift.

    The SEC is useless. They were going to stop him from being a CEO of a public company for a meaningless tweet.

    A 55 billion stock fraud confirmed by a judge warrants no punishment?

  11. The amount of lives this man is upholding because of his own insecurity and fragile ego is terrible. He shouldn’t qualify for any government handouts.

  12. Classic narcissist: he doesn’t care who he hurts, as long as he gets what he wants.

  13. barktothefuture on

    Cutting the internships Lolol. In my experience inters are either totally worthless or vert helpful. But they are soooo cheap. And for the worthless inters it’s more a reflection on the manager/department than the intern. Plus it’s like a marketing expense as well when they go back to school and tell people it’s a cool place to work.

  14. Significant-Star6618 on

    I’m not a cannibal but if he was going around I mean I might try a piece.

  15. imjustdoingmybesttry on

    Oh man, my kid’s Tesla internship ends in a week…I hope

  16. Spaghettiisgoddog on

    Cutting interns? this seems fairly meh 🤷🏽‍♂️ 
    This pig ran a superspreader factory during covid.

  17. alexunderwater1 on

    All the while they could cut one part time employee and save $56 billion

  18. Stiggalicious on

    Internships are *the* best way to find quality talent at rock-bottom prices. The company essentially gets a trial period for the employee, and then after graduation, if they are a good fit, gets a lowball offer that they will inevitably take because they don’t have much of an option anymore, and they know what to expect. The new grad is already equipped with the right tools and company processes, so they can immediately get into the workflow and be extremely productive without getting the same pay as other, more senior employees.

    Almost all of our best employees on my team and in my entire org were once interns.

    Killing your internship pipeline is a great way of killing your company’s future low-cost talent pool.

  19. Those pesky interns are the bottleneck in Elon’s pay package? I learn something new every day!!

    I thought already voted for his pay package years ago?

  20. Tesla shareholders and board need to throw this guy out. His behavior and demands clearly aren’t in Tesla’s best interests.

  21. biggies866 on

    No one on earth deserves to be paid that amount of money. Let alone someone that’s going to run the company into the ground.

  22. JaggedMetalOs on

    Probably desperate to push this through because he has to hold on to the stock he would be given for 5 years before selling and the value is dropping by the day. It’s already gone from 56B to 45B 😉

  23. If he spent that money on his company instead of himself maybe it might be profitable one day