Tesla Control Engineer interview questions

My interview process was apparently a little different due to me being on the other side of the country. I had two phone interviews with recruiters from the company, then i was invited to a local interview event. I had never felt as good as i had interviewing with the people i met there, they were all intelligent easy to get along with, and driven. The feedback i had gotten was that they needed people with my skill set, and i really got along with everyone well. I was told usually interviewees go through many more people, though, I only had to interview with 4 different people on the first round. When i got to the later rounds, they indicated they wanted me to take a job as a mechanical engineer. Which is odd, as im an electrical engineer. It seems to me that that trying to shift people from their disciplines does not serve them, or the prospective employee. It smells of desperation to get people in the door, which seems to fall in line with what ive read in reviews of the job. The last correspondence i had with them, they made condescending remarks about me contacting them "when im serious about a job". Given they wanted me to change disciplines, this seems rather pretentious, and raises major flags with me, as such i decided to not contact them back. I get feeling the company is demanding, i was told you work 7 days a week, and the pay is low for the valley. the culture appears to be friendly, and casual, but demanding. I do, as i indicated, have serious concerns about the longevity issues, given the companies propensity to bait and switch, and overworking, and underpaying employees.

I was first contacted by recruiter who found my resume in the internal database that I had used to apply for different Tesla position in the past. The process went from a phone interview with the technical recruiter, followed by a phone interview with hiring manager, followed by a phone interview with engineer. The ones with the manager and the engineer were filled 95% with technical questions. Some were think-outside-of-box questions. What was interesting was that they kept saying they were looking for a PLC guy who could program PLC but about 98% of those technical questions were all hardware-related and had nothing to do with PLC. The conversation with the engineer ended with him commenting "I think you are a decent PLC guy" but he never really asked any PLC-related questions during the interview. How could he still possibly know that I was a good PLC guy? I feel I wasn't interviewed by the correct people. My general impression is that they have a lot of candidates that they invite to phone interviews and they put a lot of time and efforts into screening the candidates through a series of phone interviews. Even if you have passed the first few phone interviews, do not hold your hopes up too high until you actually get the offer. After all, the phone interview itself was quite strange (no PLC-related questions for a PLC position).