During the end of 2019, it was predicted by Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk that the employee count would depict a 35% surge with just over 48,000 employees. This was suggested by Musk in an interview with trade publication Automotive News. “We are hiring a lot of people,” he said.
The headcount could be boosted to about 65,000 people by the end of the year with Tesla Inc. being on a hiring spree.
The company managed to report its fourth straight quarterly profit earlier this month despite relatively stagnant revenue in the last couple of years. Musk, 49, is trying to change that by expanding the company’s product portfolio and production footprint. A new plant near Shanghai helped buoy output while its California car factory was idled for an almost two-month period ending in mid-May.
Tesla has scores of job openings which are listed on its career page. These include scores for a store leader in Singapore and a construction-safety manager in Austin, where the company has purchased land for a plant that will build the Cybertruck pickup.
