Tesla lays off hundreds of SolarCity employees as part of broader housecleaning
Tesla has laid off over 200 employees from its SolarCity business for performance reasons, just over a week after firing hundreds more from its motor vehicle division. The company says that while some of the layoffs were based on poor performance reviews, others were precipitated by the merging of SolarCity with Tesla. But half a dozen former employees contradict this claim, telling CNBC they were “blindsided” by the firings.
The employees told the news channel that Tesla’s claim that the layoffs were based on performance reviews was impossible because no reviews had been conducted since the SolarCity was acquired by Tesla in late 2016. Tesla argues that it announced last month its plan to lay off 205 SolarCity employees at its…