Contacted by Tesla recruiter via LinkedIn. Consisted of 2 phone screenings and an on-site interview with 6 managers and engineers.
Phone screenings had a few technical questions, but mostly gauging fit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There's a sporadic manufacturing problem with a specific car component, walk through the problem solving process.
I applied through other source. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla (Fremont, CA) in May 2015
Interview
hiring was really fast, everything from first HR phone interview to onboarding process took 35 days.
i was interviewed by 5 managers. and was in fremont for whole day. they ask you some technical questions but again they want to check how much you are affected by tesla. how loyal you are? even if you are not the super star but loyal to tesla, they will hire you. Salary Compensation is too low.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla in Nov 2015
Interview
Every department has its own hiring style, this process only applies to my own experience with product excellence engineer role.
Had a phone screen with recruiter, then recruiter scheduled a 30 min phone interview with hiring manager. The hiring manager was more interested in finding out who you are rather than what you can do. Behavior questions and some none job related personal ones. There was no technical question, which was a bit of surprise.
One week after, received a notice from recruiter I was rejected, they have enough junior engineers in their group and want more experienced ones.
For people who do not know what Tesla Motors is, they will assume it was a badly organised company if they did the interview, even recruiter cares more technical aspect than the hiring manager.