I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Tesla (Palo Alto, CA)
Interview
Interview process is very tedious, Stressful and not fun. 1) Recruiter Interview 2) online coding exam 3) Total 3 Telephonic Interviews. 4) onsite interview -7 people -1-1+ 1 presentation -30 min
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral and Basic Technical Questions. Process is so lengthy and stressful. They do not have good process defined. They can ask random questions. It does not matter how much you read and give best in the interview, they reject the candidate all the time. Recruiters are very slow in reply. Tesla should respect the candidate. Overall negative experience on selection process.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Tesla in Jul 2016
Interview
Overall the process was needlessly lengthy, and not transparent. It sometimes took several email pings to make sure things were progressing. Nearly 2 months total to get through the off site interview process.
After answering the recruiting email, we planned an introduction call with the recruiter.
Next was a technical screens with Tesla engineers, covering general software algorithms.
A week later I was given a "coding challenge", constructing a full software solution that is supposed to take around 3 hours to implement .
I moved on to another technical phone screen, similar to the first.
1 Week later they passed on the application.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is a challenging aspect of a previous problem you worked on
I applied in-person. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla in Nov 2015
Interview
I went to a special Musk company job fair/applied online. I was then contacted online, and tried to reply as soon as possible. I delayed the initial phone conversation by a day after the initial suggestion, and then the recruiter delayed the phone conversation by a week by delaying it one day at a time, each day telling me there was some meeting keeping her from doing it. After getting on the phone with her, she told me that she would send me a take home test to work on that Friday. I received no such email. The next week, I sent another email asking what happened. After another day of no response, I sent another email reminding her about my first email. She responds, and I get the test on Friday. I took the test the next day, and now have not heard back for two and a half weeks. I didn't even get a confirmation that my test had been received. I've sent two emails at this point asking for some kind of status update, and have received no response.
Maybe the recruiter is new, but honestly this treatment is ridiculous. It is completely unprofessional, and I am being made to feel like this company does not care for me at all, even as a person. Just, absolute garbage process so far. I have never experienced anything like this from a company before.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
find the error in a a simple squaring function whose argument is a volatile pointer to an integer.