I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at SpaceX (Hawthorne, CA) in May 2019
Interview
recruiter reached out to me, had a conversation over a phone, took an online quiz, and then phone interview. process was smooth until I failed a phone interview. They took too long after the phone interview so I contacted my recruiter on linkedin, but was ignored and I got an automated "thank you for you interested, but-" email a day after. online quiz was easy but phone interview depends on your knowledge in network.
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
