Tesla Software Engineer interview experience

The last question I was asked was genuinely difficult, and I couldn’t answer it in a way that satisfied the expectation.

It didn’t feel like a normal “work through it together” moment. Instead, it turned into a hard stop where my reasoning just didn’t land on what they were looking for.

Even though I’d been progressing through the process, the ending left me with a clear negative impression of how unforgiving that last segment was. It was frustrating because I knew I had prepared for the general flow, but the specific difficulty of that final question made me feel like I ran out of runway