Tesla Mechanical Design Engineer interview questions
based on 112 ratings - Updated Jun 3, 2026
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Mechanical Design Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Tesla with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Mechanical Design Engineer roles take an average of 70 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Tesla overall takes an average of 40 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Tesla as a Mechanical Design Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Group panel interview: 17%
Background check: 17%
Personality test: 17%
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Multiple rounds!
1. Screening through email: General Questions like why Tesla? Visa Status? List down 2-3 achievements in X-Y-Z format....,etc
2. Technical Interview with hiring manager (30 minute): Questions on resume...GD&T?
3. Written ME Test:
4. Technical Presentation on a project I worked on (30 minute): Questions on presentation
5. Written ME test: Fluid mech, SOM, Moment calculations, Beams, Inertia, Stress Stain, Bernoulli's, Mass damper, thermals like conduction, convection calculations, Kinematics, RLC circuits, finding frequency response, general principles about electronic devices
6. 6 ,1:1 in technical interviews: Questions on Statics, Material properties (stress-strain curves), GD&T, Supply Chain Management situational questions, Engineering Drawing, Electrical Motor graphs.....
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There were initial written questions, followed by a video interview, then a ME test, and a 2nd interview. This whole process took several weeks. It was an intense but fair interview
I went through a technical interview, then ME Test, then final round of interviews with a design challenge. The whole process was very technically focused and thorough holistically, employees spent extra time in interviews to thoroughly analyze my knowledge.