--- title: "Tesla Tells Excited Young Interns That Their Internships Have Been Canceled" description: "Tesla is rescinding summer internship offers just weeks before they start, just after Tesla recently laid off about 14,000 people." date: "2024-05-02" modified: "2024-05-02" authors: - name: "Sharon Adarlo" job_title: "Correspondent" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/sadarlo" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-interns-canceled" categories: - "Advanced Transport" - "Tesla" tags: - "elon musk" - "interns" - "tesla" - "the digest" --- # Tesla Tells Excited Young Interns That Their Internships Have Been Canceled ![Tesla is rescinding summer internship offers just weeks before they start, just after Tesla recently laid off about 14,000 people.]() *\Image: Steve Granitz / FilmMagic via Getty / Futurism\* ## Cruel Summer College interns often serve as [seed corn]() for companies looking to groom these youngsters to become future leaders for the business. So it's a bad sign that Tesla is rescinding summer internship offers just weeks before they start, [*Bloomberg* reports](), sending more signals that all is not well at CEO Elon Musk's car company, which has been [hit by sweeping layoffs in recent weeks](). Some of these would-be Tesla interns logged on LinkedIn to air their woes and ask if anybody can offer them an alternative internship for the summer, according to the news outlet. "At 8:46am, I opened a Tesla email for flight info," wrote Miami University in Ohio student Joshua Schreiber [in a LinkedIn post]() that went viral Wednesday. "By 11:25am, my internship offer was gone." Another would-be intern, Brook Gura from The University of Texas at Austin, [also posted]() about her Tesla internship being rescinded. "This summer, I was excited about the opportunity to work as an intern for Tesla," she wrote. "Yesterday I received a call that, with just three weeks to my start date, my offer was rescinded as part of the company's #masslayoffs." ## House on Fire An untold number of internships are impacted. A [2022 Tesla report]() noted that the company offers more than 3,000 internships to college students per year. The revoking of internships is especially troubling because, as *Bloomberg* notes while citing data from Glassdoor, some of these positions either pay $18 to $28 per hour or are unpaid positions — the lowest positions available at the company, in other words. It's just another sign that things are pretty grim at Musk's car company, which has been roiled by [layoffs]() and [key executives leaving](), amidst a [broader flatlining of sales for electrical vehicles](). It doesn't help that Musk [seems to be overextended](), with his focus pulled towards his commercial space outfit SpaceX and the social media platform X-formerly-Twitter. Instead of righting the ship at Tesla, he appears to be busy posting on X, [complaining]() about this week's campus protests on the Gaza conflict or [opining on birth rates](). This constant divisive posting has [almost certainly cost him car customers](). After saying many times about how [he hates California](), residents in the Golden State have [cooled to the carmaker]() with Tesla vehicle registrations ticking down in the previous quarter. **More on Tesla:** [*As Tesla Crisis Deepens, Head of Human Resources Leaves Company*]()