Tesla

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience

January 1, 2022

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The first interview was a behavior screening with one of the team members. The second was a technical interview with a team manager. The whole process took only a few weeks. I got rejected a week after the second interview.

Questions

Basic questions related to:

Objective-oriented programming
Linear algebra
Eigenvalues
Probabilistic concepts

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 44 interview experiences for the Tesla Software Engineer (Internship) role in United States.

Success Rate

39%

Pass Rate

Tesla's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive57%

Neutral36%

Negative7%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Tesla's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in United States.

Tesla Work Experiences

Probably the best internship experience so far

Mechanical Engineering Intern • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

November 14, 2017

Pros: Great work and team culture, challenging projects, helpful co-workers, world-class mentoring. You can learn a lot in a very short time.

Cons: Hectic (not stressful if you love what you are working on)

Probably the best internship experience so far

Mechanical Engineering Intern • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

November 14, 2017

Pros: Great work and team culture, challenging projects, helpful co-workers, world-class mentoring. You can learn a lot in a very short time.

Cons: Hectic (not stressful if you love what you are working on)

Exciting place to work

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Interesting problems and smart people

Cons: Culture can be pretty intense.

Exciting place to work

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Interesting problems and smart people

Cons: Culture can be pretty intense.

Challenging But Rewarding Mission

Engineering Technician III • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: Always challenging but rewarding in the long run.

Cons: Requires commitment to help in the mission.

Challenging But Rewarding Mission

Engineering Technician III • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: Always challenging but rewarding in the long run.

Cons: Requires commitment to help in the mission.

Probably the best internship experience so far

Mechanical Engineering Intern • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

November 14, 2017

Pros: Great work and team culture, challenging projects, helpful co-workers, world-class mentoring. You can learn a lot in a very short time.

Cons: Hectic (not stressful if you love what you are working on)

5.0
Probably the best internship experience so far
Mechanical Engineering Intern • Former Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
November 14, 2017
Pros: Great work and team culture, challenging projects, helpful co-workers, world-class mentoring. You can learn a lot in a very short time.
Cons: Hectic (not stressful if you love what you are working on)

Exciting place to work

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Interesting problems and smart people

Cons: Culture can be pretty intense.

5.0
Exciting place to work
Software Engineer • Former Employee
August 4, 2022
Pros: Interesting problems and smart people
Cons: Culture can be pretty intense.

Challenging But Rewarding Mission

Engineering Technician III • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: Always challenging but rewarding in the long run.

Cons: Requires commitment to help in the mission.

5.0
Challenging But Rewarding Mission
Engineering Technician III • Current Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
March 21, 2024
Pros: Always challenging but rewarding in the long run.
Cons: Requires commitment to help in the mission.

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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