Tesla workers who started their jobs only months or even weeks ago have been let go while others have had offers withdrawn as the company begins to impose cuts announced by Elon Musk in early June.

Insider found a number of posts from Tesla employees who said they'd been laid off as part of the cut, while others had their job offers rescinded. .

Asked how Tesla had decided which roles to cut, he said: "They said that layoffs were based on performance reviews but that is not true in my opinion because I had only been at Tesla for a few months and had yet to have performance goals set or a performance review.

Iain Abshier, who was part of the recruiting team, said on Tuesday in a LinkedIn post: "Damn, talk about a gut punch.