The interview has 3 steps. First is a phone screen, which has two parts. The first part are all basic questions for background, working experience etc. The second part is the coding and statistical questions. The second step is the take-out exam for some specific questions. The last step is on-site interview.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tesla (Palo Alto, CA) in Jan 2015
Interview
The process was overall smooth. A couple of calls with HR, then a phone interview with the hiring manager, then an onsite. HR was a little bit pushy on accepting an offer but I pushed back and went back to meet the team and .. interview them before actually accepting the position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Apart for the usual there were a set of bayesian statistic questions and some advanced SQL.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Tesla (New York, NY) in Nov 2015
Interview
First, I applied for this position by university referral to the recruiter. Then we schedule a phone screen interview and it last for about thirty mins. I was asked to talk a little bit of myself and my research experience. Next, he asked me some probability problems and programming problems and I need to write solutions and code online.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There are three questions in the interview.
1. Probability questions: There are 100 product and 25 of them is bad. What is the confident interval.
2. Maximum likelihood questions: solve exponential function and get the maximum likelihood estimator.
3. Use "dplyr" package in R to solve a case.