Test Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Tesla with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 63% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Test Engineer roles take an average of 26 days to get hired, when considering 30 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 Test Engineer according to 30 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 28%
One on one interview: 19%
Group panel interview: 15%
Skills test: 15%
Presentation: 14%
Background check: 5%
Personality test: 4%
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Tesla (Fremont, CA) in Nov 2023
Interview
Stage 1 interview, standard questions asked about my current job and previous job, questions about electrical engineering were pretty standard. I got the questions about engineering correct but did not agree with the process questions. Polite interviewer smooth process
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