I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Tesla (Austin, TX) in Oct 2022
Interview
Multiple rounds of phone interviews initially discussing interest, compensation and other non-technical aspects of the position. Then I had I ended up doing 2 separate technical assessments, one for Ignition, and another for Siemens PLC. Then a 5 person panel interview with some coding exercise and work history review. It was a good experience overall, but I ended up going in a different direction and decided not to continue the process before getting an offer, just before completing a 'demonstrated excellence' letter - which, as I understand, is the final step in the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
During one of the zoom panel interviews, I was asked to do a live coding exercise, and talk through my thought process as I attempted to solve it - the problem was something along the lines of writing an algorithm to sort a ring buffer of integers after a new element is added.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Tesla (Palo Alto, CA) in Apr 2024
Interview
It was a thorough conversation on my abilities and experience, but heavily focused on my personality and how I would mesh with the team. Standard programming questions with a few examples as well as some network protocol questions and specific hardware questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you could choose the hardware your SCADA system was integrating to, what brand would you choose and why?