Product Excellence Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Tesla with 3.1 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 Product Excellence Engineer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 8 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 Product Excellence Engineer according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
One on one interview: 20%
Background check: 13%
Skills test: 13%
Group panel interview: 7%
Personality test: 7%
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Contacted by Tesla recruiter via LinkedIn. Consisted of 2 phone screenings and an on-site interview with 6 managers and engineers.
Phone screenings had a few technical questions, but mostly gauging fit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There's a sporadic manufacturing problem with a specific car component, walk through the problem solving process.
I applied through other source. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla (Fremont, CA) in May 2015
Interview
hiring was really fast, everything from first HR phone interview to onboarding process took 35 days.
i was interviewed by 5 managers. and was in fremont for whole day. they ask you some technical questions but again they want to check how much you are affected by tesla. how loyal you are? even if you are not the super star but loyal to tesla, they will hire you. Salary Compensation is too low.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla in Nov 2015
Interview
Every department has its own hiring style, this process only applies to my own experience with product excellence engineer role.
Had a phone screen with recruiter, then recruiter scheduled a 30 min phone interview with hiring manager. The hiring manager was more interested in finding out who you are rather than what you can do. Behavior questions and some none job related personal ones. There was no technical question, which was a bit of surprise.
One week after, received a notice from recruiter I was rejected, they have enough junior engineers in their group and want more experienced ones.
For people who do not know what Tesla Motors is, they will assume it was a badly organised company if they did the interview, even recruiter cares more technical aspect than the hiring manager.
I applied in-person. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Tesla in Sep 2015
Interview
Panel Interview with many managers and director. Went into a conference room inside the factory, so it was quite loud, it was in a busy area so there was a lot of distraction. I think this was intentional to keep you off guard. 3 hours of interviews in total, everyone was very nice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe how you solve problems outside of work (hobbies + personal projects)