Take-home Project

Software Engineer interview at Tesla: gasket tolerance

TeslaSoftware Engineer · Take-home Project · Jul 2026

Before the interview, I completed and submitted a take-home test. The interview then opened with a problem that sounded simple, involving a gasket and an L bracket compressing that gasket. The interviewer treated it as straightforward, but I overthought the calculation and missed the correct tolerance limit. The subject itself was not complicated. The precision of the calculation was what mattere…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.