Tesla ends hiring freeze, but only for one department

Tesla ends hiring freeze, but only for one department

Over the past month, Elon Musk initiated significant layoffs across Tesla’s entire organization,

estimating about 15% of the company being laid off.

At the same time, Tesla implemented a hiring freeze.

Now, Tesla appears to have ended its hiring freeze as it has started to list many new positions on its career website,

all in the ‘Autopilot & Robotics’ category, related to Tesla’s self-driving effort and humanoid robot program.

One of the main takeaways from Elon’s recent actions at Tesla is that the CEO is positioning Tesla less as an automaker and more as an AI company,

shifting resources to the Robotaxi and emphasizing the need to solve self-driving for this vehicle program to be worth anything.

Tesla's strategic shift is evident as it restarts its hiring effort with a focus on AI and self-driving technology.