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Tesla’s headcount grown 40% in 2021. That’s pretty unheard of for manufacturing sector. We all hear about mass layoff but massive hiring is rarely recognized. They have almost 100K employees now.

20 open positions, especially for an in demand profession like software, is the norm at companies at such size who are doing well.

> When I see that many open postings at once, alarm bells go off.

It all depends on context though - for a company as massive as Tesla, 20+ open postings for SWE is nothing. It certainly doesn't warrant alarm bells, I think.

I would expect much more than that just for _normal_ attrition. People leave for any number a reasonable scenarios and you need to backfill. At the scale of a big company, NOT hiring 20-100 people at all times means you are _shrinking_.

I think that's going to be a lot of places soon.