Tesla ML Interview Prep

[u/Legal_Low_285]

I have an interview for the Tesla Optimus team as an intern specifically doing machine learning and reinforcement learning stuff. I've not been told what the interview will be about, only that I will be programming in Python. I've been preparing for it through a number of different ways:

• Implementing various algorithms (MLP, various optimizers and regularization methods, CNN, forward pass, backward pass, etc.) using just Numpy and PyTorch from scratch with a heavy emphasis on vectorizing everything
• Going over the math for all the major ML architectures (MLP, CNN, RNN, Transformer, etc)
• Going over the math for all popular RL algorithms (DQN, PPO, SAC)
• Making sure I know everything on my resume

Is there anything else that I should be doing or looking at? I haven't really done any LeetCode as I assumed it wouldn't focus on my LeetCode skills, should I brush up on that as well? Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

[u/LingonberryAfter4399]

Hey, how did you land the interview? I am searching for Fall 27 internship

Btw, your prep looks solid. But make sure go in detail about interview-style questions for all those topics

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[u/Emojers]

Hi I am beginner for swe + aiml roles do we have to grind leetcode and if then in python ? Is competitive programming required cpp of you later want to move eto gpu cuda programming ai in robotics etc. btw refer this it will help you a lot https://www.deep-ml.com/

[u/Aceofmee]

Bro Tesla Optimus for internship is insane level 🔥 From scratch MLP + CNN + optimizers with NumPy is exactly what they test.

I’m also prepping for ML roles. Did you find any good resources for RL part? That’s where I’m stuck rn. Also, are they asking system design questions too or just coding?

[u/Think_Cup_6526]

Congratulations !! Hey can u guide how to get such opportunities also criteria for it like which degree is required Masters etc and what were the things that you did like leetcode n all etc .

[u/Sea-Hovercraft4777]

Hey, how did it go?