Tesla

Automotive and energy company pushing boundaries in autonomous driving and AI.

4 Rounds ~18 Days Hard

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Recruiter Screen (30 min)

Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.

Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)

Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.

Interview Question Bank

All Roles Cloud Engineer 3 Data Engineer 3 Data Scientist 2 Machine Learning Engineer 4 Product Manager 1 Software Engineer 5

All Topics Algorithms 5 System Design 3 Culture Fit 2 Performance Optimization 1 SQL 1 Systems Programming 1 Concurrency 1 Leadership 1

Software Engineer • Coding • medium

Given a stream of CAN bus messages represented as strings (e.g., 'TIMESTAMP ID PAYLOAD'), write a function to parse the stream, aggregate the payload values by ID, and return the moving average of the last N payloads for a specific ID.

#String Parsing #Queue #Hash Map

Software Engineer • Coding • hard

Write an algorithm to navigate a factory Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) from a starting point to a destination on a 2D grid representing the Gigafactory floor. The grid contains obstacles (machinery) and dynamic barriers (moving workers). Implement A* or Dijkstra's and explain how you would adapt it for dynamic obstacles.

#Graph Theory #Pathfinding #BFS/A*

Software Engineer • Coding • medium

Given an array of intervals representing the start and end times of sensor anomalies detected by the Autopilot system, merge all overlapping intervals and return the consolidated periods of anomalous behavior.

#Arrays #Sorting #Intervals

Software Engineer • Coding • medium

Implement an LRU (Least Recently Used) Cache. This is commonly used in our infotainment systems to cache map tiles. The cache should support get and put operations in O(1) time complexity.

#Hash Map #Doubly Linked List #Data Structures

Software Engineer • Coding • medium

You are given a list of 3D coordinates representing point cloud data from a vehicle's Vision system. Write a function to find the K closest points to the vehicle's origin (0,0,0). Optimize for a very large number of points.

#Heaps #Geometry #Sorting

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Senior Engineer

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