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United StatesOnsite12 days ago
Tesla

Software Engineer Interview Experience

Tesla·Intern
Result
Rejected
Interview date
2 months ago
Timespan
1 week
Difficulty
Moderate

Interview process

There were 2 interviews with a break of 30 minutes between them. Both the interviews were 45 mins long. The first interview was fairly easy, spent the first 20 minutes on behavioral questions and the next 20 on an easy Leetcode question-> Best time to buy and sell stocks. The second interview was quite difficult, it was about parsing a month's API data and outputting the peak API hours for each day given an operation

  • Recruiter screen
  • Technical interview

Interview tips

I think leetcode questions definitely help and also looking through github repos of recently asked Tesla questions

Company culture

Nothing different tbh. The interviewers were helpful and helped you through your thinking

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