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      Backend Software Engineer Interview

      1 Apr 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Fremont, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Tesla (Fremont, CA) in Feb 2025

      Interview

      Had my interviews around February 2025. First round was a recruiter screening, where we went over my resume and experience briefly, as well as what the next stage of the interviews is. Second interview was a technical round. I was expecting the typical DSA round, but was surprised that it was a deep dive into Java. The interview was pretty much consistent questions about the java language, internals, how GC worked, when to use "static", etc. etc.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What is the difference between Spring boot and Spring?
      Answer question

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      Backend Developer Interview

      24 Jun 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Tesla in Jun 2020

      Interview

      I was reached out by a HR recruiter on Linkedin. He talked to me over the phone to get some information about my experience and what I'm looking for in the next role. He set a call with the technical recruiter in a few days. Awful technical recruiter call. It was a video call where the technical recruiter (the engineering manager of the team they were hiring) talked to me. He asked me about my background and within a few minutes, I saw him distracted and not interested to talk or ask any more questions. I wouldn't have upset him by talking about my background as they already had my resume and I was just elaborating what was mentioned on the resume. Very unprofessional of him to not be attentive on a video call. WORST EXPERIENCE. Would never consider to interview for the company again.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Tell me about your current role
      Answer question
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      Software Engineer, Backend Interview

      8 Dec 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Fremont, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla (Fremont, CA) in Nov 2019

      Interview

      Background: 4 Years of experience as Software Engineer First round: Recruiter call for 30 minutes discussing my background and my expectations from next role. Codility: Was given online assessment containing 2 programming questions and 1 sql question. After test, recruiter contacted me in couple days asking me that they want to move forward. But then I was handed off to another recruiter who works for team in Seattle. I was asked to come onsite in Fremont with some video interviews with folks in Seattle. Onsite consisted of 5 rounds: Chat with PM -> team fit style questions Lunch interview tech round -> data modelling question chat with manager -> team fit style questions tech round -> interviewer was in no mood for interview. He was really tired. Asked me some simple string manipulation question for the sake of it. Finished interview 15 minutes before scheduled. At that point itself I knew I am not getting this job. I cannot share any specific questions due to NDA. But overall, it was not a very difficult interview.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Codility assessment: Minimum number of characters to delete from a string so that each character appears unique number of times. Note: You can delete all occurances of characters. eg: "aaaabbbb" -> 1 "a" or 1"b" would make "a" and "b" appear unique number of times. Given number in binary form, if its even -> you can divide it by 2; if its odd -> you can substract 1 from it. You can repeat above steps as many times as you want to reach 0. How many steps it took to reach zero? SQL question to select records from two tables using joins etc.
      1 Answer
      4