The recruiter gave me a 60 min code test without clearly telling me the evaluation is based on compilation. Finished them in time, even spent time writing clear comments to make the code clean and readable, expecting a human would read it and see the code quality. Instead, got rejected simply because they didn't pass compilation. If that is the requirement, they should have told this up front, so I would have focus on testing compilation instead of code quality.
Not too long, not too short, moderate length
Online
Asked about my educational background, hobbies
Why did i choose my major, basic questions about my major
academics, personality, character, and among other things too
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla (Draper, UT) in Sep 2021
Interview
Phone pre screen
Coding Challenge. 3 LeetCode style
given a chance to re-take because I didn't finish the last question
post Code challenge code review, explain your answers/ solutions.
Next is 3 hours worth of "panel" interviews
Was able to break into 2 * 90 minute sessions
with 45 minutes for each person interviewing.
First was just a conversation.
2-4 were coding challenges, SQL, did some Linq, then modeled out a file system using C# entities (inheritance)
I was a bit slow in my answers and solutions so I can see why they said "not now"
So, I guess I'll try again in 6 months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Tesla?
Can you handle actually working hard?
Explain what you know about C#
Explain some common reasonably basic fundamentals of programming...