I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla in Aug 2021
Interview
1. initial call with recruiter
2. codility challenge (2 hrs of leetcode medium and sql)
3. final onsite 4 rounds - design, database, data structures and algo, hr round
all rounds were video based, no phone screening.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
basic questions about sql - joins, primary key, group by, having etc
leetcode easy - medium, sorting implementation, array simple problems, string manipulation - nothing too difficult
lots of oop basic concepts (4 pillars, method overriding etc)
high level design - not much into detail - but make sure you know what classes to inherit n how to use method overriding
first round LC medium, second round resume overview. manager asked me about my projects, start date, transcript, graduation date, my seniority at school. also wanted to know more about my llm project
3 rounds.1,2 tech architecture, SQL, 3 with behavior and with simple coding, and so on. should better understand what list on the resume and the tech used before, be familiar with it, answer well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
like using some SQL function. basic tech knowledge
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Tesla (Palo Alto, CA) in Jan 2022
Interview
The interview process consisted of submitting an application, which led to a technical - react. After this, it was an OOP technical. Final round was a panel whcih consisted of 2 algo rounds and 1 react and 1 oop.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
react component building, OOP, panel consisted of graph algos and react component building given some API