Best Experience You Could Ask For As An Intern
Best Experience You Could Ask For As An Intern
• Collaborative team. Teammates will happily put in extra hours to help you learn and grow.
• Meaningful work. No paper pushing here. You will be given work that is important to the product, and others will count on you (and will help you when needed).
• Great intern community. Lots of interns all wanting to meet each other and do activities. It's easy to make friends.
• Overtime pay. You'll likely be working more than 40 hours, but interns are paid hourly, so it's great.
- Long work hours. Product dev is volatile. Expect chill weeks (40 hours) and hectic weeks (60-70 hours).
- Limited amenities compared to neighboring companies. No meals provided, no free snacks (before COVID, they had cereal). Transit subsidy is limited (at one point, they paid $15/day for biking; not sure if this still exists).
The internship program and coordinators are excellent, but the interview process is volatile. You may have an interview and not hear back for months. Please let candidates know whether they've been rejected or are still being considered more promptly.
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Battery Engineering
I met a connection for lunch one day, outside of the interview process. A couple of weeks later, he offered to help me get an internship at Tesla. The interview process was fairly low-stress, but note that this was in 2012. I spoke with several me
Battery Engineering
The atmosphere was very chill and lax in the beginning. The recruiter eased me into the interview. The technical questions were somewhat challenging towards the end. They expect you to know quite a bit about PV systems.
Test Engineer
The interview process involved multiple rounds and took a few months. I guess that was due to the job market. There was also a presentation at the end, followed by one-on-one interviews with everyone involved.
Battery Engineering
Palo Alto, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2012I met a connection for lunch one day, outside of the interview process. A couple of weeks later, he offered to help me get an internship at Tesla. The interview process was fairly low-stress, but note that this was in 2012. I spoke with several me
Battery Engineering
Palo Alto, California, United StatesJune 1, 2021The atmosphere was very chill and lax in the beginning. The recruiter eased me into the interview. The technical questions were somewhat challenging towards the end. They expect you to know quite a bit about PV systems.
Test Engineer
Palo Alto, California, United StatesApril 8, 2024The interview process involved multiple rounds and took a few months. I guess that was due to the job market. There was also a presentation at the end, followed by one-on-one interviews with everyone involved.
