These are the software engineering programming languages that Tesla uses

Welcome back! Well, this Tesla article I wrote the other day went pretty viral, so now let’s go into a little bit more detail of the programming languages that Tesla uses, specifically the languages they use for software engineering. The process of me finding these languages was extremely complex and complicated, just kidding, I just went to their career page, looked at the software engineering positions and tallied the programming languages they require:

The Languages

Let me preface the rest of this article with this statement: Programming languages are one part of software engineering, you will still have to learn a bunch of different softwares / libraries and technologies as well. The most popular programming languages that Tesla uses for their software engineering positions are: C++ / C, Python, Java, Ruby and Go. Tesla also requires experience with: Stash, JIRA, Git and Docker. If that’s all you wanted to know then you’re welcome! Otherwise, let’s get into more details about these languages!

C and C++

Next up, C and C++ are very popular languages that i’m sure everyone knows about. C is one of those languages that many software engineering positions (even some data science positions) are going to require it regardless. C++ is another very popular language, this language was originally known as “c with classes”. Since it’s origination, it’s pretty much been it’s own language. You can build out a lot of different things with both C and C++: Games, Applications, Operating Systems, etc. If you want to learn more about C or C++ check out the following link:

Python

This is one of the most popular languages right now, this language can be used for software engineering or data science. First off, I saw this language as a requirement in a ton of different positions from Tesla, so if you plan on applying at Tesla, learning Python will allow you to apply to a ton of jobs. On top of this, Python isn’t extremely hard to learn, it’s still hard to become an expert (just like any other language) but it’s still a very solid language to know. If you want to learn more about Python, check out the links down below:

Java

Java is a very popular language used in tons of companies across the world, Tesla is one of those companies. This language is an object oriented language with a large community behind it, so if you plan on learning this language, you will have a large community to help you. I imagine Tesla uses this language for their Android applications, so if you plan on developing for any of their Android apps, it might be best to know this language. If you want to learn more about Java, click the following link:

Ruby

Next up we have Ruby, This is another language used for web development, although it can be used to do more than that, it is mostly used for its various web development features. If you want to learn more about Ruby, click the following link:

Go

Go is actually a lesser known language, commonly known as Golang, this language was actually built by Google. Based on what i’ve seen, it is commonly noted to be fairly similar to C, but there are a few notable differences. First off, Go has memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing and CSP-style concurrency, so even though it’s not as popular as C, there are still some massive reasons to learn this language since Google built it. If you want to learn more about Go, click the following link:

There you have it, those are most of the common languages I saw required by Tesla for their software engineering positions. Like I mentioned before, even though the programming languages are important, the frameworks and technologies they require are very important to the positions as well.

Thanks for reading!