Tesla Software Engineer interview experience

One of the rounds was with the team’s manager, and it felt fairly calm and conversational rather than adversarial. I ended up talking through my experience and how I approach work, and I could sense the evaluation leaned heavily on whether the manager and team “clicked” with me.

After that, the process moved into a deeper technical conversation. I went through a more detailed deep dive with a staff engineer where the questioning was more about depth and execution than broad talk. What stood out was that after the interview, the team internally reviewed the feedback before making a final,