Recently, Tesla went off on a spree to lay off its employees. This has led to other big tech companies hiring these laid-off employees. The companies include Microsoft and Amazon which are directly in competition with Elon Musk, Business Insider reports.
According to LinkedIn data sourced by a private network of Fortune 500 executives called Punks & Pinstripes, rival electric vehicle manufacturers Rivian and Lucid picked up 90 of 457 recent Tesla departures between them.
It is reported that Apple has been endeavoring to get a secretive and cursed autonomous car project off the ground for years. The company hired 51 former Tesla employees. Amazon also hired the same number of employees. Others migrated to other tech giants including Meta and Microsoft.
“If the Emperor of Mars doesn’t want you, I’ll be happy to bring you over to [Amazon Web Services],” read a simmering LinkedIn post by Zafar Choudhury, a recruiter at Amazon, in response to the work-from-home drama, as quoted by Insider.
The EV company has had a tough year so far. Tesla’s controversial, semi-automated driving tech is facing a huge government recall, while Musk is trying to rein in spending, referring to the company’s factories as “gigantic money furnaces.”
