Tesla Software Engineer interview experience

After the handoff, the interview started with a question that sounded simple on paper—something about a gasket and an L bracket compressing that gasket.

Even though the interviewer framed it as straightforward, I managed to over-complicate it in my head and ended up missing the correct tolerance limit. That moment was frustrating because the technical topic itself wasn’t complex; it was the calculation and the precision that mattered.

The overall difficulty felt average, but the experience leaned stressful because one small mistake in reasoning derailed the end result. I didn’t end up with