I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at SpaceX (Redmond, WA) in Feb 2025
Interview
Onsite interview, 1 hr presentation about a technical project of your choice. Then 1 on 1 interviews with every team member that was present during your presentation. About an hour for each single interview.
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Question 1
Mostly hardware stuff, for software they don’t ask Leetcode questions.
Recruiting Call -> Several rounds of technical interview: very fundamental questions that probe your conceptual understanding. Make sure to study / review first principles as it gets theorectical. Quick 30 minute phone calls
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Tell me about one project to showcase engineering skills
I applied for Software Engineer Data position. It was fine. 1 hour leetcode style interview on codility. The difficulty was medium. I had an alright experience. Was able to get brute force but not optimized solution.
Recruiter screen was a lot of trivia, very basic trivia that any software engineer should know so make sure to read up on some python syntax etc. to be able to answer the trivia questions. can be tricky given time limit
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What are some basic python methods used in machine learning
