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      Firmware Engineer Interview

      Dec 3, 2013
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla in Oct 2013

      Interview

      HR department employees are quite incompetent and with zero technical knowledge. They were unable to provide an accurate position description or desired skills. "Somewhere in the software team" is the only thing I got. After a pretty pointless phone interview with some junior employee in HR they scheduled a C exercise with me. They would sent out a series of questions about C programming and I had 30 minutes to return the answers in a text document (no need for actual source files). The test is ok-easy and the only problem is to finish it in 30 minutes. It's 7 short questions about writing to a specific memory address, pointers, preprocessor directives, setting bits... After that was accepted they scheduled a phone interview with someone from the firmware engineering department. The interview was basically going over my resume asking details. Interview was ~ 30 minutes. I was then contacted by HR, who told me that I'm not fir for that position.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      There were no trick or difficult questions.
      Answer question
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      Firmware Engineer Interview

      Dec 17, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Palo Alto, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla (Palo Alto, CA)

      Interview

      The recruitment process was very standard. starter call, screening calls and on-site. I didn't make it to onsite. Positive experience through out the process. No hold up, every questions answered clearly.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      design a thermal management systems. What/how would you troubleshoot based on given constraints.
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      Firmware Engineer Interview

      Mar 18, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Tesla

      Interview

      Go through the project I did before and 3 coding questions by using C language, and ask behavior questions like Why Tesla? The whole process took 1 hour more or less

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      pointer problem, big endian little endian, bit operation
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      Firmware Engineer Interview

      Apr 30, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Austin, TX
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Tesla (Austin, TX) in Dec 2024

      Interview

      Call with recruiter, call with HM, virtual onsite with 5 interviews, I was then asked to create a presentation to give. I declined to do so and surprisingly they allowed me to continue the process.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Was given code written in c and asked to find any errors.
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