Do you have experience working with Robot Operating System?
Robot Operating System, or ROS, is an operating system common to the autonomous vehicle and robotics industries. It is a relatively new operating system, so many software engineers are unfamiliar or do not have experience working with it. If you worked with ROS, you can describe your experience with it. If not, you can state your knowledge of the operating system and discuss how you would attain the skills needed to program for it. Either answer will be acceptable to the interviewer at Tesla.
"As you are probably aware, ROS is an ecosystem of software libraries for robotic development. Since autonomous vehicles are analogous to robots, this OS makes developing autonomous vehicles easier than other systems. While ROS supports several operating systems, it is commonly run on top of Ubuntu. I have experience programming for ROS using both C and Python. Even though ROS has a robust library of tools for autonomous vehicles, it is a bit of a bulky platform to run the autonomous vehicle stack on. That's why I typically use it as a prototyping tool."
