Tesla lays off its new marketing team months after launching it: report
Tesla slashed its marketing department just months after making new hires.
The company has eliminated about 40 marketing and advertising staff, Bloomberg reported.
The move is part of ongoing job cuts announced by CEO Elon Musk last week.
Tesla appears to have pulled the plug on its short-lived marketing team.
The company cut its entire US "growth content" team in its most recent round of layoffs, Bloomberg reported. The team was a group of about 40 people, the outlet said.
Tesla still has a small group of marketing employees in Europe, a person with knowledge of the issue told Bloomberg.
Elon Musk responded to a post on X that said the laid-off staff "could've done a better job with their ads."
"Exactly. The ads were far too generic – could've been any car," Musk wrote in response.
Musk told staff last week that Tesla was laying off more than 10% of its workforce.