I applied online. I interviewed at SpaceX in Aug 2020
Interview
After a coding challenge and a couple phone calls, they have you make a Powerpoint presentation on a project you worked on. I cannot stress this enough: it must be very low level. show the code! explain everything!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What did you accomplish at the end of this project?
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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Question 1
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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Question 1
What are some basic python methods used in machine learning