A college senior who scored a prestigious Tesla internship is scrambling to make new professional plans after the automaker revoked her offer less than three weeks before she was supposed to start.
Brook Gura, 21, was looking forward to spending her summer as a recruiting intern in Tesla’s human resources department, she told Business Insider this week. The senior at the University of Texas at Austin said she spent about three weeks interviewing with the company earlier this year before signing a contract with Tesla on February 29. Business Insider viewed part of Gura’s offer letter from Tesla.
“It was exciting. I was looking for a big corporate internship,” Gura said. “And it was close by. I wouldn’t have had to relocate.”
Gura, who said she turned down internship offers at other companies in favor of Tesla, was particularly stoked about the compensation — $26 an hour, she told BI.
The 12-week internship was scheduled to start on May…