I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Tesla (Austin, TX) in Jan 2020
Interview
Basic two round phone interview; the first round is a manager from another team, the second round is the mentor of my internship; first-round only took 20 mins, second round last 40 minutes
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1st: Why Tesla, why this role, are you really interested, what's your skill, some tech questions based on past projects and work 2nd: Detailed question about PCB design, how to bring up the board, how to make design more robust, how to design your circuit with higher tolerance, discussed past experience
Friendly interview. I felt very welcome and encouraged by the team. There was a presentation held by a manager about the current projects. Technical questions should be easy for someone freshly out of college. They were theoretical.
The interview process was quite comprehensive and covered a wide range of technical topics. Many of the questions focused on embedded systems, circuit design, and VLSI concepts. There were also some problem-solving scenarios to test analytical thinking.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design a test plan for verifying a new VLSI chip’s functionality?
I applied online. I interviewed at Tesla in Aug 2025
Interview
Interviewer seemed friendly, I felt like interview went okay but got instantly rejected right after, The interviewer asked a few basic resume questions (what was your biggest challenge? debugging process?) as well as whiteboarding one of my projects. Some technical questions at the end
