I applied online. I interviewed at SpaceX (Hawthorne, CA) in Aug 2023
Interview
Applied to several positions online, recruiter reached out several weeks later about a different position. Positions listed online are unrelated to what they're actually hiring for. Spoke with the recruiter on the phone, took an at-home technical test several days later, phone interview with an engineer the next week. The next step would be an on-site, but at this point I was ghosted. I fumbled some basic questions in the phone interview so I understand why they wouldn't want to hire me, but disappointing to be ghosted. Overall workplace vibes seem very bro-y, not particularly smart, and unprofessional. 0/10 would not recommend.
Interview questions [1]
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Technical test: - Toy starlink beam planner problem. Find a maximum coverage pairing of satellites and users given some constraints on the angle of each beam, number of users each satellite can connect with, etc. Actually a pretty good interview question: you can use the language of your choice and have up to 4 hours to complete it. Phone interview: - What's a project you have worked on - How did you make decisions in a team - What's an interesting bug you found and how did you fix it - What does a linked list look like in memory
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.
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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
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Why starlink? Why SpaceX? What project are you most proud of?
