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The
dismissals were a result of a company-wide annual review, Tesla
said in an emailed statement, without confirming the number of
employees leaving the company.
"It's about 400 people ranging from associates to team leaders
to supervisors. We don't know how high up it went," said the
former employee, who worked on the assembly line and did not
want to be identified.
Though Tesla cited performance as the reason for the firings,
the source told Reuters he was fired in spite of never having
been given a bad review.
The Palo Alto, California-based company said earlier in the
month that "production bottlenecks" had left Tesla behind its
planned ramp-up for the new Model 3 mass-market sedan.
The company delivered 220 Model 3 sedans and produced 260 during
the third quarter. In July, it began production of the Model 3,
which starts at $35,000 - half the starting price of the Model
S.
Mercury News had earlier reported about the firing of hundreds
of employees by Tesla in the past week.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru and Alexandria Sage in
San Francisco; Editing by Andrew Hay)
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