I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla (Palo Alto, CA) in Feb 2022
Interview
Fairly standard interview process: short call with a recruiter, 1on1 interview with an engineer, a 90min test, and then a 30min presentation followed by five 30min interviews. The recruiter call is easy. Just some basic questions about why Tesla and my recent experience. Same with the 1on1 interview but it's all about my resume and some technical questions about how I would approach designing for some test scenarios. The 90min test was easy but took up nearly all the time. It was also open book which is nice and takes some of the stress away. The last step was the most difficult (partially because I was very tired that afternoon). The questions were more technical and really tried to understand the limits of my knowledge by asking about how I solved problems on past projects
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
