Tesla Software Engineer - Motion Planning interview questions
Updated 7 May 2025
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Difficulty
Difficult
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How others got an interview
100%
Employee referral
Employee referral
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Software Engineer - Motion Planning applicants have rated the interview process at Tesla with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied for the team that was working on Optimus. The first round was resume review. We had a standard discussion on projects and why you want to join. The next round was a coding interview in C++. The question given in the coding interview was very vague and I was asked to choose everything for myself when I asked for clarity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a method in C++ to find the median of a triangle. Did not mention any input data type, or what is given.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla
Interview
1. Recruiter phone screen
This was more of understanding the interests of the candidate and assessing the personality of the candidate.
2. 1 to 2 technical phone interview
Problem solving questions using strings and matrices. Would advice practicing a lot of coding for this round
Couldn't clear the technical phone interview.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Problem - Solving question: Matching string patterns