I applied online. I interviewed at SpaceX (Hawthorne, CA)
Interview
First phone screening required no preparation, the take home assessment is a lot of work, then interviews are very difficult afterwards. You have one with an engineer, then HR, then if they like you, very long back to back interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Phone interview questions involve passion and history
I applied online. I interviewed at SpaceX (Hawthorne, CA)
Interview
thiry minute phone screen -> sixty minutes live coding through codility -> onsite interview with coding, system design, and behavioral. tech stack for the role include .NET and postgresql. basic DSA asked in the phone screen
The phone screening interviews were pretty straight forward. They do a deep dive into one of your projects and ask about any trade offs or decisions you made on it.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at SpaceX (Redmond, WA)
Interview
Couple of stages the first call with is with HR, then a take home coding questions, and call with lead developer. The take home coding has a time limit of 2 hours, and the lead developer call is a deep dive on a previous project of yours, with a random technical question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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Full Stack Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at SpaceX with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 57% positive. To compare, the company-average is 53.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Full Stack Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at SpaceX overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at SpaceX as a Full Stack Software Engineer according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 29%
Presentation: 21%
Skills test: 14%
Group panel interview: 7%
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