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 online. I interviewed at SpaceX in Dec 2020
Interview
1) Apply online
2) HR phone screening
3) Technical phone interview with Manager (system design question)
4) Take home coding assessment
5) Onsite virtual interview
HR recruiter was quick with setting interviews up and very communicative. Made it to step 4, but was rejected after submitting the codility coding assessment.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
System design: Design an end-to-end system that manages and executes user scripts automatically.
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
