I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Tesla (Fremont, CA) in Nov 2020
Interview
1. Recruiter Call.
2. One 45 minutes hiring manager interview over Teams.
3. Two 45 minutes interviews with senior TPM over Teams.
4. Four 45 minutes interviews with Business Systems Manager, SDM, Product Manger, Senior TPM.
Recruiters are terrible at scheduling. Interviewers didn't show up multiple times. Final decision took one week and the recruiter didn't care to inform the decision until I followed up. The reason they gave for not extending an offer was not a valid one. They said my experience was not sufficient for the role. But they knew this right at the resume scrutiny, not sure why they wasted their time and mine for 4 sets of interviews.
Based on the conversations I had with the interviews, Tesla is a chaotic mess and they are struggling to establish a structural process to support scaling.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Why Tesla?
2. Bunch of scenario based questions.
3. High level product design.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Tesla (Palo Alto, CA) in Mar 2026
Interview
3 30 min remote interviews, 1 30min presentation about one thing you have done and 6 30 min interviews on site. A very long process that makes it difficult to follow
First round online interview with the hiring manager. Then onsite panel interview with five interviewers in the team. The online and in-person one both are technical. HR is not efficient. Every other employees seem to be pretty professional!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why interested in being a TPM over a cell engineering role?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla (Palo Alto, CA) in Oct 2025
Interview
Multiple interview stages, the recruiters and hiring managers lack professional.
I got first video interview rescheduled 3 times not because of me because the hiring manager kept forgetting and missing about the interview.
This isn't the first time I interviewed for Tesla, same thing happened again when I interviewed for them 2 years ago for another position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About my current role at my current company.
Basic interview questions for the position I was interviewing
