Tesla Motors Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – pretty chaotic, ad hoc

Negotiation Details – also chaotic, ad hoc, but also level headed

Interview Details – Got an in-person interview after waiting in line at a university career fair. was invited back for an on campus interview. Interview went well, basic questions like why do you like the company and what you know about Tesla. Was told to expect a technical phone interview in three weeks, but was told later that they did not have any more positions available for ME interns.

Interview Details – Behavioral then two technical interviews with department.

Interview Details – Initially contacted on LinkedIn by a recruiter. Set up a phone interview via email. Phone interview was basically just asking general questions about resume "tell me about your time at XYZ". This led to an in-store interview at the retail location. I was interviewed by both of the current assistant store managers as well as one of the employees that works underneath them (total about 1.5 hours). The store manager happened to not be at the store that day, so I was contacted to have a separate interview with him a week later. We met at a starbucks and chatted for around 40 minutes. I was then scheduled to interview with the regional sales manager who would be flying in from California to interview the final 4 candidates. All interviews had gone extremely well for me with the interviewers basically telling me they liked me and were rooting for me. The final interview with the regional director went really well, and he said his final decision was between me and one other guy. Then, I never heard anything ever again. I contacted my recruiter contact and she said they were still making a decision. Weeks later she said they were undergoing some type of hiring audit. Weeks after that and she still had no information. As the months went by, I lost respect for Tesla. 4 separate interview occasions and 6 interviewers and then nothing? Who does that?

Interview Details – Phone interview was OK, just regular questions. It was somehow rush like a machine asking you irrelevant questions back to back. Unable to expand in detail about your skills and professional experience. Besides, lack of update/response from the HR Deaprtment after the interview was done. Waited weeks before an answer was obtained and it did not come from them, followed up done from my end.

Interview Details – Machine gun interviews with back to back muppets. Oh yeah cross dept interviews with minions that mostly dont care, know anything of job tasks or have time at all to interview anybody. Takes forever for HR to set up interviews, and exponentially longer to get hired if in fact you everpass the layers of crap to even get to that point. Many walk away before they get hired. The road signs tell the true story. Stay away!

Negotiation Details – 48 hours of phone & email negotiations. Verbal offer accepted. 3 months later joined as TSLA was out of control. Should have paid attention to road signs as they were true. Worst job descison ever made and still feeling the affects personally from it all along with many others.

Interview Details – I was called for an in person interview and showed up there to meet with an assistant manger and then with a manger. Although Both of them friendly , but didn't seem to have any knowledge about how to properly interview. They both did not look professorial and serious So I don't know what to think about the culture of this company, so far it is a red flag

Interview Details – Contact was made through an ex colleague and a human resources recruiter contacted me by phone. He asked me a number of questions in a very basic fashion before scheduling me for two follow up phone interviews with the hiring manager and his boss. The HR recruiter then contacted me to set up an on-site interview. I interviewed with 5 different managers before finally getting a job offer. The rest of the process went quite smooth.

Interview Details – Applied about six months before being contacted, then was enthusiastically courted to interview and tour the facilities. Did five distinct interview, and toured the facility with what would become peers. None were particularly difficult or unusual, though several were interrupted by a "crisis" on the production floor that required one or more of the interviewers to take a break and go solve the problem (usually a late or missing part). It was clear that they are swamped, overworked, and understaffed, and desperately need help. Unfortunately, during one of my tours, my guide said that the expected work week was about 80 hours, including nights and weekends, and that this pace was forecast to remain constant for at least the next eighteen months, as the company was fighting for its life to make the shift from a a proof of concept to a mass production company.

Reason for Declining – I judged that my tour guide was not exaggerating about the excessive work demands and the culture of panic, and that was not an environment I was willing to join.