I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at SpaceX (Hawthorne, CA) in Oct 2025
Interview
Recruiter honestly stayed on top of it. Heard back extremely quickly after each interview. Process was:
Recruiter phone screen (didn't have any trivia questions, just ensuring you're a good fit) -> Take-home assessment (this is where I failed, but 4 hours to complete a take-home assessment) -> 1-on-1 Codility with a SWE on the team -> onsite.
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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
