The Tesla recruiter reached out to me via LinkedIn without my request or application. I had a very positive experience from the initial phone screening. She asked a couple of questions about my experience and background and described the hiring process in detail, emphasizing that they have a high demand for SDETs who know Python.

At the end, she sent me a link to the position description (where Python was again mentioned as the first required skill) and asked for a customized resume.

Then the weird part began. I sent my resume and had no response for two weeks. Just out of curiosity, I emailed about feedback, and within a couple of hours, she replied that my skills were great and we would proceed.

After one more week, she sent me a link to two coding assignments on Codility.com. I finished them with a 100% grade from the system but didn't receive any answer from the company for another week or two.

Then they scheduled a phone interview with someone from the hiring team. During the interview, they didn't propose using any shared online code editor but asked coding questions related to JavaScript and SQL.

After this stage, I didn't receive any feedback or answer to my emails.