I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at SpaceX (McGregor, TX) in Apr 2015
Interview
Whole process took a little over a month. Was contacted by a recruiter via email for a position I applied for last year. Began with a short phone interview with the recruiter, followed a week later by a 1-hour long technical phone interview with one of the engineering managers. Two weeks later I was brought on site for interviews. This was a very long day, but an awesome experience. It started first thing in the morning with a technical interview with a group of engineering managers. They went in depth with everything on my resume. The large majority of the questions were focused on my master's degree work and the work I did in graduate school. With an advanced degree you should be prepared to answer any and every kind of question related to your research. That was followed by a lunch interview, tour of the test site, interview with the recruiter, and one final interview with a higher level manager. One week later I had a technical phone interview with one of the VPs. A few days later I was offered the position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In depth questions about graduate research and every project that I worked on while in grad school. Questions about research topics, reasons for decisions made, prodding to see if you know your own work.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at SpaceX (McGregor, TX) in Mar 2026
Interview
3 Rounds of interviews. First was a 30 minute phone call with a majority of questions being conceptual technical questions. The second was an hour zoom with multiple engineers, half about the work I have completed in the past and the second half technical whiteboard questions. Final was on-site presentation about technical achievements as well as more written whiteboard questions with the engineering team.
Applied online and got an interview in a week. It was a 30 minute screening call with typical behavioral questions and questions about my resume. There were also a few technical questions at the end.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at SpaceX
Interview
The interview process consisted of a 4 stages: 1 phone screen, 1 phone interview with hiring manager, 1 phone interview with a Responsible Engineer on the team, and 1 on-site interview. The phone screen was typical. The phone interviews were more technical and related to the job. The on-site interview was a technical presentation about one of your projects to a panel of 7 members from the team followed by 1-on-1 or 2-on-1 interviews, and a hands-on assessment.
