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      Manufacturing Engineer Interview

      22 Aug 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Los Angeles, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at SpaceX (Los Angeles, CA) in May 2016

      Interview

      I applied online and heard back incredibly quickly (couple weeks maybe), which I was impressed by. Then came a couple phone interviews, one with HR and one technical with some existing engineers. Then they flew me out and put me up in a pretty nice hotel, all expenses paid. Once there, I gave a short presentation on my background, which was followed by a one on one interview with each member of the group to which I presented. These had questions ranging from practical application questions ("how would you solve this problem") to personality/character questions, and lasted a few hours. Up until this point I was pretty happy, until I let on that I wasn't sure about 50-60 hour work weeks (something I had not heard quoted to me prior to getting there, aside from hearsay. Also, I'd probably be more okay with it if not for being in LA, where you seem to be guaranteed a long commute no matter what you do), at which point they basically flashed me the middle finger.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      "technicians are drilling a series of holes going around the fuselage, which you find to be out of spec in a certain pattern, what do you think might be the cause, and what would a solution be" (pattern changes as they walk through different possible causes, anything from tool wear to differences in operators by time of drilling, etc)
      Answer question
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      Application

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      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at SpaceX

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      Anonymous interview candidate
      Hawthorne, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

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      Interview

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