I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla (Palo Alto, CA) in May 2012
Interview
The interview process was pretty straight forward. There was one phone screens with H and three technical phone interviews with hiring manager, technical mentor, and potential coworkers. They also brought me in for one in-person interview which more of a personality-fit interview. After the phone interview occurred, the HR contact scheduled three back-to-back technical phone interviews. After they were happy with that, they brought me in for a personality-fit interview which means they wanted to see if my personality would fit with the team. They didn't tell me it was a personality interview, i thought it was another technical interview until I finished the in-person interview to realize they wanted to just get to know me.
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
Interview questions [1]
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Was given code written in c and asked to find any errors.