Tesla Software Engineer interview experience

The first was a behavioral conversation with a director, and it was mostly grounded in my past projects—how I worked through messy situations and how I handled conflicts when they came up.

The second round was a coding interview built around a LeetCode-style problem. I started out with a naive approach that used a counter, and I actually tried to reason it through that way before the interviewer pushed back. They pointed out a subtle edge around character exhaustion, and I had to adjust. Once I shifted to tracking usage so the scanning stayed consistent, I ended up coding with two loops and