It's not a Tesla-specific anti-pattern, but it's not a good sign. Snatching failure from the jaws of success through morale-destroying "cost-saving strategies" of unpredictable layoffs, RTO, closing eateries, chopping perks down, and saving pennies with crappier office snacks.

Corporate Applers? How is the morale over there? I recall something about a deliberate philosophy of neither over-hiring nor mass layoffs.