had an initial recruiter screen over the phone, was more intense than your average phone screen. Follow up with hiring manager, lots of questions, Make sure to have a few STAR situations lined up.
I applied online. I interviewed at SpaceX (Hawthorne, CA) in Dec 2025
Interview
Recruiter phone screen, followed by a technical Codility take-home assessment, and then a series of onsite interviews with upper management and team members (some technical some behavioral). You present to a panel about your greatest technical achievements and then break off into 1 on 1 interviews afterwards
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe in detail your biggest technical achievements, the challenges you encountered and how you overcame them
Awkward interview, interview seemed unprepared a lot of awkward silences. Interview wasn’t sure what to ask me seemed like he was trying to come up with question ones the spot.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Which of your projects did you have the most ownership over?
