I applied online. I interviewed at SpaceX (Redmond, WA) in Aug 2022
Interview
Interview from initial phone call to final interview took around a month. I felt very welcomed and met the team on site. Unfortunately, I did not perform my best because I was nervous and was not able to answer some of their technical questions. Did not pass final interview.
Interview process:
1. Phone call with recruiter and we chatted about the position, my qualifications, basic interview questions
2. Phone call with lead software engineer - talked about projects and experience, then talked about technical questions regarding my projects. Talked about scalability questions (very big part of interview).
3. Given an OA to complete within 48 hrs. Required me to create visualization from scratch.
4. If OA was good, they fly you over for an on-site interview, you do a presentation on your OA.
5. After the presentation, I attended 4, 45 minute 1-on-1 interviews with other engineers. (Mostly technical interviews)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked how I would design and translate my OA project from JavaScript, HTML, CSS to React.js
recruiter screen (confirm us citizenship, talk about your backgorund, dive into a personal project you worked on, why spacex and why SWE) -> take home OA -> in depth behavioral/system design -> on-site.
Passed the behavioral section, was friendly and easy.
The tech assessment was above average difficulty, with a
question involving data structures and confirming if conditions are met for satellite connectivity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Easy Behavioral Questions (Tell me about yourself)
First round was a phone screening very quick and painless, the second round was a coding assessment (take home times 2 hr project), the third round was a behavioral where they dove into a specific project
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why starlink? Why SpaceX? What project are you most proud of?
