Tesla

Mechanical Design Engineer Interview Experience - Palo Alto, California

November 1, 2022

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process included:

Initial phone screen with a recruiter
Technical interview with an engineer
A 90-minute engineering exam
A panel interview, which consisted of six interviews with six engineers and a 30-minute presentation on my work

Questions

How would you make this plastic part?

[Showed me a picture of the part.]

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 34 interview experiences for the Tesla Mechanical Design Engineer role in Palo Alto, California.

Success Rate

15%

Pass Rate

Tesla's interview process for their Mechanical Design Engineer roles in Palo Alto, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral29%

Negative21%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Tesla's Mechanical Design Engineer interview process in Palo Alto, California.

Tesla Work Experiences

Working at Tesla

Mechanical Design Engineer • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

January 3, 2025

Pros: Tesla will offer you challenging problems to solve, which are great for your development as a professional. You will work with great and talented engineers that will uplevel your way of thinking.

Cons: Work-life balance is hard to maintain, depending on the project you’re working on.

Working at Tesla

Mechanical Design Engineer • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

January 3, 2025

Pros: Tesla will offer you challenging problems to solve, which are great for your development as a professional. You will work with great and talented engineers that will uplevel your way of thinking.

Cons: Work-life balance is hard to maintain, depending on the project you’re working on.

Good learning, horrible work culture

Mechanical Design Engineer • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

September 30, 2021

Pros: Decent pay for a mechanical engineer intern. Very good learning curve.

Cons: Horrible work culture. Some managers are tough to work with, and they expect you to work more than 10 hours a day, every day.

Good learning, horrible work culture

Mechanical Design Engineer • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

September 30, 2021

Pros: Decent pay for a mechanical engineer intern. Very good learning curve.

Cons: Horrible work culture. Some managers are tough to work with, and they expect you to work more than 10 hours a day, every day.

Fast-paced, Demanding, Outcome-driven

Mechanical Design Engineer • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: Fast-paced work environment and highly outcome-driven.

Cons: Demanding work creates more work pressure.

Fast-paced, Demanding, Outcome-driven

Mechanical Design Engineer • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: Fast-paced work environment and highly outcome-driven.

Cons: Demanding work creates more work pressure.

Working at Tesla

Mechanical Design Engineer • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

January 3, 2025

Pros: Tesla will offer you challenging problems to solve, which are great for your development as a professional. You will work with great and talented engineers that will uplevel your way of thinking.

Cons: Work-life balance is hard to maintain, depending on the project you’re working on.

5.0
Working at Tesla
Mechanical Design Engineer • Former Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
January 3, 2025
Pros: Tesla will offer you challenging problems to solve, which are great for your development as a professional. You will work with great and talented engineers that will uplevel your way of thinking.
Cons: Work-life balance is hard to maintain, depending on the project you’re working on.

Good learning, horrible work culture

Mechanical Design Engineer • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

September 30, 2021

Pros: Decent pay for a mechanical engineer intern. Very good learning curve.

Cons: Horrible work culture. Some managers are tough to work with, and they expect you to work more than 10 hours a day, every day.

2.0
Good learning, horrible work culture
Mechanical Design Engineer • Former Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
September 30, 2021
Pros: Decent pay for a mechanical engineer intern. Very good learning curve.
Cons: Horrible work culture. Some managers are tough to work with, and they expect you to work more than 10 hours a day, every day.

Fast-paced, Demanding, Outcome-driven

Mechanical Design Engineer • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: Fast-paced work environment and highly outcome-driven.

Cons: Demanding work creates more work pressure.

4.0
Fast-paced, Demanding, Outcome-driven
Mechanical Design Engineer • Former Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
April 24, 2024
Pros: Fast-paced work environment and highly outcome-driven.
Cons: Demanding work creates more work pressure.

Tesla Interview Questions

Course Schedule

Determine if it is possible to finish all courses given prerequisite relationships between them. Essentially, detect if a cycle exists in the course dependencies.

GraphsRecursion

Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters

Find the length of the longest substring within a given string that contains no repeating characters. The substring must be contiguous.

StringsTwo PointersSliding Windows

Minimum Changes To Make Alternating Binary String

Determine the fewest modifications needed to transform a binary string into an alternating pattern (e.g., "0101" or "1010"). You can change '0' to '1' or '1' to '0'.

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