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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

March 1, 2019
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

  1. Codelity - 4 questions, 2 hours duration
  2. Telephone Screening - 1 hour
  3. Onsite Interview - 4-5 hours:
    • Behavioral
    • Quality Assurance
    • OOPS concepts
    • Algorithms
    • Unspecified focus

Questions

  1. Codelity:

    • 4 questions on Angular, SQL, .NET, and Java. They were moderate; one could do them with minimum preparation.
  2. Telephonic Screening:

    • They focused on your Codelity round and your approaches.
    • They asked 2-3 coding questions. The level of these questions depended on the interviewer. For me, I felt 2 of them were easy, and the other took some time, but I could do it.
  3. Onsite Interview:

    • Behavioral: Stay cool and answer how you usually handle situations efficiently within your team.
    • Quality Assurance: They focused on your approach to coding to minimize bugs and how efficiently you could code within the deadline.
    • OOPS: Basic Java questions on OOPS concepts. They presented a problem and assessed your approach to achieving it, mostly via whiteboarding. If you are good at OOPS concepts, you are fine.
  4. Algorithms:

    • The interviewer asked about Graphs and graph traversing algorithms.
    • He asked me to write pseudocode for a few of them. I missed handling a few edge cases, but he sounded okay.
  5. Managerial Round:

    • This is where I think I got screwed up. Another manager joined the interviewer. They didn't let the original interviewer ask any questions and took all the time asking basic questions, which I answered well and was appreciated for.

Got a response from HR stating I am good in algorithms but not in databases and data structures. None of the interview panels asked me any questions regarding databases. I solved my algorithm questions using data structures (Arrays, Queues, Stacks). I don't know how they concluded that I am good in algorithms but not in data structures and databases.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Tesla Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

33%
Pass Rate

Tesla's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive33%
Neutral0%
Negative67%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Tesla's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

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