I applied online. I interviewed at SpaceX (Cape Canaveral, FL) in Aug 2020
Interview
Applied with my resume online. I was contacted for a phone interview ~3 weeks later with hiring managers where they asked me non-technical questions. About 2 weeks later I was invited to an on-site interview. On-site interview consisted of a presentation on one of my projects, during which the interviewing team (about 8 people) would ask both technical and non-technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell us about your greatest engineering challenge.
Tell us about a time you helped resolved a conflict, technical or non-technical.
Why do you want to work at SpaceX?
interview process was long and tedious. started with a recruiter screening, minimal technical questions, then moved to a hiring manager technical interview, following this was a technical presentation to a panel of engineers, i was then brought on site for an interview which included another pannel interview, site walkaround and questioning, then a written multiple choise mechanical assessmnet.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
shear and moment diagrams, fluid basics, pipe flow, compressible flow.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at SpaceX (Cape Canaveral, FL) in Nov 2025
Interview
The interview started with 15 minute going through your past project / experiences. Followed up with 15 minute rapid fire technical questions (3 questions including topics from mechanical, fluids, and FEA)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If your FEA tells you the part fails, do you trust it?
The first round was a technical interview with lots of rapid fire technical questions. It was over the phone which made it hard to stop and think about how to answer each question.
