Tesla is great place to kickstart almost any career. While working in our Manhattan location I was often contacted by other tech-start ups in NYC asking if I would consider applying for one of their positions. Because Tesla is such a prominent house-hold name I believe that you can transfer to ...
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The training program is a two day orientation. After that, you get put on a team and the specifics are up to them. Most interns get thrown right into the thick of things to start absorbing as much info as they can. Interns are normally given smaller projects up front and then larger ones as the t...
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Scheduling Coordinator is a team lead for the scheduling team. They work with other agent’s on scheduling customer’s for the solar installation & Powerwall installation & EV installation. Once those fundamental steps have been completed, we move to problem solving to be the most effective use of ...
Supports the product management of different components of the vehicle. You may own your own parts, or help a coworker with one of his parts. This normally involves CAD modeling/surfacing/drafting, components testing, and coordinating with other teams or suppliers.
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Tesla does not have a minimum GPA requirement to be considered for internships. We look at the "big picture" of each candidate and what they've accomplished outside of the classroom as well!
Work with some excel spreadsheets and get used to looking at long lists of serial numbers to see which ones are faulty.In particular get comfortable with Vlookup function on excel and PivotTables. Some knowledge of circuits is also really useful but for the most part you learn things on-the-job a...
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Material Flow Engineering is a Production supporting team. It is literally material flow: how parts and hardware (materials) move about the factory to their intended end location (flow). Parts arrive every hour at the loading docks of the factory and need to end up at the assembly line. Material ...
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As a controller, I work for the equipment engineering & maintenance team at Tesla where we help support production through our equipment that controls material flow. What my main function entails is to keep watch over all of our equipment's health to ensure that the flow of material for productio...
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Application Developer Interns are under IT (not Engineering, they consider all Software as IT, Engineers work on the cars), and I was given a project from Engineering. My project was to create a web app for some modeling and mapping of joins on the Model X and Model 3. When I was there we were us...
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I liked the open atmosphere. There were no cubicles or offices. Also, I was able to learn a lot about a variety of subjects relating to the car/dealership business model. There wasn’t much that I did not like. However, I would say that because Remarking is relatively new at Tesla, there was not a...
You should have a good understanding of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) fundamentals. The ME department at SJSU offers a Manufacturing Processes class (ME101) which covers some GD&T fundamentals. If you’re more ambitious, you can take a graduate class, Precision Machine (ME 250) whi...
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It really depends on what department/team you are working with. During my internship in Tesla I worked with Gigafactory Modeling and Simulation team, where I spent most of my time writing mathlab codes for 1D modeling. Also, I had to look up to the factory P&ID schematics and acquire real time el...
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In my experience, the main qualities that should be highlighted in an interview for the position of Customer Experience Specialist are SALES EXPERIENCE, personality, and a general interest in the areas that Tesla is involved (environmental sustainability)
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