Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Tesla with 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 37 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 Software Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Group panel interview: 50%
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Several technical interview a design interview and a final interview. The process was not pleasant because the interviewers where aggressives and I didn't felt at ease at all. The questions where quite classic advent of code style questions.
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Question 1
Compute area of a cylinder to optimise volume and minimise amount of matter used to produce the cylinder
Good I like it cause the people are fun and I love being asked interesting questions to boggle my mind. I would recommend interviewing with the team. I want to interview again
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla (Austin, TX) in Dec 2025
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Interview process was nice and easy but after completing about 6 different rounds of interviews I was completely ghosted. No email, no phone call, and no courtesy at all! Very unprofessional!