very quick but not very thorough at all. interviewer was not really paying attention or show an interest in my back ground which was unfortunate i do not know why
I applied online for the Mechanical Design Engineer role and was contacted by the recruiter within a week. The first step was a phone screen, where I was asked about my background, CAD skills (CATIA V5, Siemens NX, SolidWorks), and specific projects that demonstrated GD&T, tolerance stack-ups, and DFM/DFA practices. They also wanted to understand my experience with FEA tools like ANSYS/Abaqus and my ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In your experience, what are the biggest design-to-manufacturing challenges the team faces, and how does this role contribute to solving them?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Tesla (Palo Alto, CA) in Aug 2025
Interview
seven rounds, mix between system design and live coding. recruiter was very open to sharing details about the process. Only did first round interview where senior engineer asked to implement ML topics. Was not selected after