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Initial Screening Questions 1. Why SpaceX? 2. How has your experience up to this point prepared you for the position which you're applying for? 3. Explain a time where you led a team to success. Technical Interview Questions 1. What is your concern, if any, with leaving a thin-walled rocket booster outside on a hot day? 2. Is it better for hot a material to be exposed to cold, or a cold material exposed to heat? 3. Describe your thought process on how to replace a faulty valve. 4. If you were traveling in the desert and got a flat tire and also lost all of that tire's lug nuts, what would you do?
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Launch Build Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at SpaceX

3.8
Sep 6, 2023

Initial Screening Questions 1. Why SpaceX? 2. How has your experience up to this point prepared you for the position which you're applying for? 3. Explain a time where you led a team to success. Technical Interview Questions 1. What is your concern, if any, with leaving a thin-walled rocket booster outside on a hot day? 2. Is it better for hot a material to be exposed to cold, or a cold material exposed to heat? 3. Describe your thought process on how to replace a faulty valve. 4. If you were traveling in the desert and got a flat tire and also lost all of that tire's lug nuts, what would you do?

You're sitting in a canoe inside an above-ground pool holding a bowling ball. You drop the bowling ball. What happens to the water level of the pool? Lots of questions on previous projects. Some questions on basic engineering (i.e., cantilever beam, hoop stress, effects of thermal loads, etc.).
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Build Engineer

Interviewed at SpaceX

3.8
Apr 20, 2021

You're sitting in a canoe inside an above-ground pool holding a bowling ball. You drop the bowling ball. What happens to the water level of the pool? Lots of questions on previous projects. Some questions on basic engineering (i.e., cantilever beam, hoop stress, effects of thermal loads, etc.).

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