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Firmware Engineer Interview Experience

November 1, 2015
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied to a special Musk company through a job fair and online. I was then contacted online and tried to reply as soon as possible.

I delayed the initial phone conversation by a day after the initial suggestion. Subsequently, the recruiter delayed the conversation by a week, one day at a time. Each day, she informed me that a meeting prevented her from speaking with me.

After we finally spoke, she told me she would send a take-home test that Friday. I never received the email. The following week, I sent another email inquiring about the status. After another day without a response, I sent a follow-up email referencing my first one.

She then responded, and I received the test on Friday. I completed and submitted the test the next day. It has now been two and a half weeks without any further communication. I did not even receive confirmation that my test was received.

I have sent two more emails requesting a status update and have received no response.

Perhaps the recruiter is new, but this treatment is ridiculous. It is completely unprofessional, and I feel as though the company does not value me at all, even as an individual. The process so far has been absolute garbage. I have never experienced anything like this from a company before.

Questions

Find the error in a simple squaring function whose argument is a volatile pointer to an integer.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 31 interview experiences for the Tesla Firmware Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

6%
Pass Rate

Tesla's interview process for their Firmware Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive45%
Neutral23%
Negative32%

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