I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla (Palo Alto, CA) in Mar 2012
Interview
I met a connection for lunch one day outside of the interview process. A couple weeks later, he offered to help me get an internship at Tesla. The interview process was fairly low stress, but note that this was in 2012. I talked to several members of the battery engineering team, one at a time. Each interviewer had a different role in the team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the team members asked me some questions about my coding projects, and had me send him some of my work.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Tesla (Palo Alto, CA) in Jun 2021
Interview
It was very chill and lax in the beginning. Recruiter eased me into the interview. Technical questions were somewhat challenging towards the end. They expect you to know quite a bit about PV systems.