I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla in Sep 2025
Interview
I first had an HR call. Then I had a 60 minute technical phone interview, where they asked me coding and conceptual questions. I failed this round so i'm not sure what the next steps were.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me the rules of numpy broadcasting, and coding the forward/backward pass of cross-attention
call with the recruiter, general questions like why are you looking for a new role, why do you wanna work for tesla etc.
live code session round afterward. 1 question I was given a practical code and I had to clean it up and one standard leetcode question
- 45 min discussion for the interview, whicb was focused on software engineering and GenAI tools
- Leetcode question on Graphs(30 mins)
- Project discussion (10 mins)
- Q and A(5 mins)