Tesla laid off 19,000 workers in 2024, roughly 14% of its employees and a quarterly payroll savings of $175M. Not all these were tech workers, there was executives let go, line workers, operations staff but there was a significant amount of programmers let go. And...lookee here, the guy who says he can't find US tech workers put in a request for 2000+ H1B workers and receied a near 100% approval from the government: Source: https://h1bgrader.com/h1b-sponsors/tesla-inc-op0l16qz2l