I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla (Palo Alto, CA) in Apr 2012
Interview
Initially I had a phone interview with the hiring manager and then I was called for an onsite interview. I started with giving a presentation to a group of managers and firmware engineers. Then I had a 1:1 interview with all the 6 members present in that group, followed by the VP of the company. The questions were related to my projects and some basic C ones as well. Then I was asked to take C based a pen and parer test. They asked me a few brainteasers also. Overall I had a good experience.
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Most of the questions were related to my projects and some basic C questions.
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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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.