Tesla

Mechanical Design Engineer Interview Experience

December 14, 2015

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Contacted by a recruiter for a 30-minute phone call.

Followed up by a Skype interview with the hiring manager. The interview was about an hour long and covered the basics of education history and resume.

Contacted later that week and requested for an on-site interview.

The on-site interview consisted of 10 separate 30-minute interviews with different teams.

Questions

Please explain one contribution to the overall project that you believe hasn't been brought up to date.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 97 interview experiences for the Tesla Mechanical Design Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

20%

Pass Rate

Tesla's interview process for their Mechanical Design Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive54%

Neutral35%

Negative11%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Tesla's Mechanical Design Engineer interview process in United States.

Tesla Work Experiences

Great people, poor management

Mechanical Design Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: People are hard-working and willing to help.

Cons: Management is horrible. Very disorganized. Toxic work culture with little WLB. No training will be given. Sink-or-swim mentality. Not willing to invest in employees.

Great people, poor management

Mechanical Design Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: People are hard-working and willing to help.

Cons: Management is horrible. Very disorganized. Toxic work culture with little WLB. No training will be given. Sink-or-swim mentality. Not willing to invest in employees.

All the stories are true!

Mechanical Design Engineer • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: Very cool workplace, exciting stuff going on, real ownership early in career.

Cons: They will work you to the bone.

All the stories are true!

Mechanical Design Engineer • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: Very cool workplace, exciting stuff going on, real ownership early in career.

Cons: They will work you to the bone.

Great People, Long Hours

Mechanical Design Engineer • Current Employee

Fremont, California, United States

Pros: Best people to work with.

Cons: Too long office hours can be stressful.

Great People, Long Hours

Mechanical Design Engineer • Current Employee

Fremont, California, United States

Pros: Best people to work with.

Cons: Too long office hours can be stressful.

Great people, poor management

Mechanical Design Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: People are hard-working and willing to help.

Cons: Management is horrible. Very disorganized. Toxic work culture with little WLB. No training will be given. Sink-or-swim mentality. Not willing to invest in employees.

2.0
Great people, poor management
Mechanical Design Engineer • Current Employee
April 22, 2023
Pros: People are hard-working and willing to help.
Cons: Management is horrible. Very disorganized. Toxic work culture with little WLB. No training will be given. Sink-or-swim mentality. Not willing to invest in employees.

All the stories are true!

Mechanical Design Engineer • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: Very cool workplace, exciting stuff going on, real ownership early in career.

Cons: They will work you to the bone.

4.0
All the stories are true!
Mechanical Design Engineer • Current Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
April 12, 2022
Pros: Very cool workplace, exciting stuff going on, real ownership early in career.
Cons: They will work you to the bone.

Great People, Long Hours

Mechanical Design Engineer • Current Employee

Fremont, California, United States

Pros: Best people to work with.

Cons: Too long office hours can be stressful.

5.0
Great People, Long Hours
Mechanical Design Engineer • Current Employee
Fremont, California, United States
May 1, 2024
Pros: Best people to work with.
Cons: Too long office hours can be stressful.

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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