Applied through their careers page and then had contact through email, then an assessment, and a technical interview. Included Embedded C programming basics, communication protocols, state machines and bit manipulation.
Questions about the projects, then some concept questions like stack/heap. And a very simple coding question. They wanted to know if you really know the concept of memory management as this is very cruical for low-level designs.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla (Palo Alto, CA) in Feb 2025
Interview
It was good, my interviewer asked basic EE and DSA questions. Make sure to prepare your fundamental concepts well since the sill ask conceptual questions. However, interviews at tesla are very team dependent
I applied online. I interviewed at Tesla in Mar 2024
Interview
- HR Communication - Asked about availability, previous related experience, etc.
- OA - 60 minutes to solve 5 C problems on Coderpad
- Hiring Manager Interview - Discussion on previous experience, and 1 C problem on Coderpad
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
OA questions are of 5 types:
· Macro
· Function debug
· Bit manipulation
· State machine
· Interpolation
Embedded Software Engineer Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Tesla with 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Embedded Software Engineer Intern roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Tesla overall takes an average of 33 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Tesla as a Embedded Software Engineer Intern according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 40%
Phone interview: 40%
Skills test: 20%
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