I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Tesla in Jul 2016
Interview
Overall the process was needlessly lengthy, and not transparent. It sometimes took several email pings to make sure things were progressing. Nearly 2 months total to get through the off site interview process.
After answering the recruiting email, we planned an introduction call with the recruiter.
Next was a technical screens with Tesla engineers, covering general software algorithms.
A week later I was given a "coding challenge", constructing a full software solution that is supposed to take around 3 hours to implement .
I moved on to another technical phone screen, similar to the first.
1 Week later they passed on the application.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is a challenging aspect of a previous problem you worked on
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla (Palo Alto, CA)
Interview
The recruitment process was very standard. starter call, screening calls and on-site. I didn't make it to onsite. Positive experience through out the process. No hold up, every questions answered clearly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
design a thermal management systems. What/how would you troubleshoot based on given constraints.
Go through the project I did before and 3 coding questions by using C language, and ask behavior questions like Why Tesla? The whole process took 1 hour more or less
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Question 1
pointer problem, big endian little endian, bit operation
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Tesla (Austin, TX) in Dec 2024
Interview
Call with recruiter, call with HM, virtual onsite with 5 interviews, I was then asked to create a presentation to give. I declined to do so and surprisingly they allowed me to continue the process.
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Question 1
Was given code written in c and asked to find any errors.
