I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at SpaceX (Hawthorne, CA) in May 2024
Interview
Had a technical phone interview with a software engineer of the Dragon team. Asked mainly vocab questions of basic software engineering terminology. After that, I moved on to the coding assessment which I couldn't complete, thus ending their continued interest in me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the difference between a list and tuple in Python?
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
Interview questions [1]
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
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are some basic python methods used in machine learning
