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      Firmware Engineer Interview

      3 Dec 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied in-person. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla in Nov 2015

      Interview

      I went to a special Musk company job fair/applied online. I was then contacted online, and tried to reply as soon as possible. I delayed the initial phone conversation by a day after the initial suggestion, and then the recruiter delayed the phone conversation by a week by delaying it one day at a time, each day telling me there was some meeting keeping her from doing it. After getting on the phone with her, she told me that she would send me a take home test to work on that Friday. I received no such email. The next week, I sent another email asking what happened. After another day of no response, I sent another email reminding her about my first email. She responds, and I get the test on Friday. I took the test the next day, and now have not heard back for two and a half weeks. I didn't even get a confirmation that my test had been received. I've sent two emails at this point asking for some kind of status update, and have received no response. Maybe the recruiter is new, but honestly this treatment is ridiculous. It is completely unprofessional, and I am being made to feel like this company does not care for me at all, even as a person. Just, absolute garbage process so far. I have never experienced anything like this from a company before.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      find the error in a a simple squaring function whose argument is a volatile pointer to an integer.
      1 Answer
      4

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