HR Call -> 4 hour OA -> Engineer Call -> Onsite. Engineer was quiet but respectful. OA wasn't too difficult and usually takes candidates 2 hours. HR call was 15 minutes.
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]
Question 1
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
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