I applied online. I interviewed at Tesla (San Jose, CA) in Feb 2021
Interview
Initial recruiter call, technical call with hiring manager, technical call will staff engineer, and the presentation and panel interview. The first three interview weren't bad at all, but the panel interview was brutal. I took a day off work, which is fine, but definitely a bummer if you don't get an offer.
15 min interview with very fast and straight forward questions and answers screening. Its a fantastic and nice experience. Firstly in 2 mins we need to introduce and in the next 3 minutes interviewer give some brief and then 10 minutes is like question and answer session.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Tesla (Palo Alto, CA) in Apr 2026
Interview
Very disorganized. Recruiters didn’t know what they want and didn’t care about the process. The team managers/leads that I interviewed with were mostly young people with not enough experience or deep knowledge.
4 Interviews: 1 Phone Screen with a recruiter, 2 Technical Interviews where they ask about your resume and technical questions about how you implemented your design, and 1 Panel interview with a presentation
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you measure current in a high power system?