The process was extremely inconvenient and unprofessional.

I spoke with the hiring manager, and he told me he would be considering me for two positions. I was given a written test for both roles, which took more than four to five days to finish.

I had three technical rounds prior to the panel interview. The hiring managers were late in two out of three times (25 minutes late for a 30-minute interview). The interview had to be rescheduled once.

After all this, I finally received a call for a panel interview where I was supposed to give a 30-minute presentation. I was then scheduled to give six 45-minute panel interviews for the day.

On the day of the interview, literally five minutes before my presentation, I was told that three of the interviewers couldn't make it and would need to reschedule them for later.

Being a working professional, this was an extreme inconvenience, and barely any apology was offered. After all six panel interviews were done (panelists were late multiple times), I was completely ghosted for 1.5 months.

Upon reaching out to the recruiters multiple times, I was given various excuses about how they were busy.

A month after the interview, I was told that out of six panel interviews, they had heard back from three panelists and the results were positive so far. I was also told that no other candidate was being interviewed, which was great feedback.

Then, two weeks later, I was told via text (yes, not by a professional email, but by text message) by an extremely unprofessional recruiter, who had been ignoring my messages for 1.5 months, that the position might have been filled internally.

Thus, after investing more than 60 hours in the interview process, I was told the position was filled internally, and no proper feedback was provided (even after multiple requests).

Overall, this was an extremely unprofessional way to treat anyone, let alone a professional, qualified candidate.

I got the impression that just because they are Tesla, they can treat candidates however they want.

I really feel burnt after waiting for feedback for 1.5 months, especially when the panelists seemed pretty happy during the process.

I truly hope Tesla's recruiting team reads this.

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