I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at Tesla (Palo Alto, CA) in Dec 2024
Interview
Was asked generic bit-swizzling questions. Needed in-depth knowledge of C as well as memory and interrupts. Interviews were given day of and had no time to truly prep. Interviewed at unorthodox times as well
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Embedded Systems Knowledge - where things are stored, etc.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Tesla
Interview
Two round code interview. The first round is Leetcode, one medium one hard. The second round is full stack. You need to write a full stack website. No any BQ.
Resume review into leetcode medium problem. Did not get to the onsite and interviewer mostly let me run through the problem by myself. Be sure to know your DSA, recruiter was very nice during the process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Run through the tradeoffs and benefits of certain design choices in a project.
Had 2 back to back 45 min interviews. First was 15 min behavioural, followed by 2 LC Easy. The second had an object manipulaiton qustion followed by a SQL question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself?
Whats the most challenging project you've worked on?
Determine if one string can be formed using the characters of another string, with each character allowed to be used only once?