Tesla

SDE-intern Interview Experience

June 1, 2023

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

After a phone screen with a Tesla recruiter, there are two rounds in the process:

One round for system design about car management with a senior developer. One round for behavioral questions asking why you joined Tesla.

Questions

Why join Tesla?

Design an application, an XML diagram, and a database to use. How to connect the database.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Tesla SDE-intern role in United States.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Tesla's SDE-intern interview process in United States.

Tesla Work Experiences

Never Dull, No Balance

SDE-intern • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

October 7, 2022

Pros: Not a single dull day.

Cons: No such thing as work-life balance or return offers for interns.

Never Dull, No Balance

SDE-intern • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

October 7, 2022

Pros: Not a single dull day.

Cons: No such thing as work-life balance or return offers for interns.

Amazing Environment, Overwhelming Talent

SDE-intern • Current Employee

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Pros: Best environment ever. Tesla is the best.

Cons: Too much skilled people at one place.

Amazing Environment, Overwhelming Talent

SDE-intern • Current Employee

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Pros: Best environment ever. Tesla is the best.

Cons: Too much skilled people at one place.

Smart Team, High Anxiety

Associate Mechanical Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Surrounded by very intelligent and hard-working people.

Cons: Anxiety and stress can be high.

Smart Team, High Anxiety

Associate Mechanical Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Surrounded by very intelligent and hard-working people.

Cons: Anxiety and stress can be high.

Never Dull, No Balance

SDE-intern • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

October 7, 2022

Pros: Not a single dull day.

Cons: No such thing as work-life balance or return offers for interns.

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Never Dull, No Balance
SDE-intern • Former Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
October 7, 2022
Pros: Not a single dull day.
Cons: No such thing as work-life balance or return offers for interns.

Amazing Environment, Overwhelming Talent

SDE-intern • Current Employee

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Pros: Best environment ever. Tesla is the best.

Cons: Too much skilled people at one place.

5.0
Amazing Environment, Overwhelming Talent
SDE-intern • Current Employee
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
April 13, 2021
Pros: Best environment ever. Tesla is the best.
Cons: Too much skilled people at one place.

Smart Team, High Anxiety

Associate Mechanical Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Surrounded by very intelligent and hard-working people.

Cons: Anxiety and stress can be high.

5.0
Smart Team, High Anxiety
Associate Mechanical Engineer • Current Employee
March 5, 2022
Pros: Surrounded by very intelligent and hard-working people.
Cons: Anxiety and stress can be high.

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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