I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla (Fremont, CA) in May 2017
Interview
Contacted by HR, pre-screenning, than 90-min online coding interview in CoderPad, than on-site. Coding interview is a stress-test with a gun pointed to your head, using somewhat confusing/unclear task descriptions, technically trivial, ignorant interviewer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
celestialS is a data structure that represents celestial bodies in the solar system. However, the data structure is taking up too much space on an x86 system. How can the celestialS structure be changed so that it needs 8 or fewer bytes for storage without losing fidelity in any of the members.
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.