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      Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 26, 2016
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at SpaceX in Feb 2016

      Interview

      I heard back from them a month after applying. The first step is an online C/C++ quiz where you look at snippets of code and try to determine if there is a problem (off by one, infinite loops, etc) or if the code is good. After that you get a phone interview from someone who is likely not a programmer. They have a list of questions and want to hear maybe a 2 sentence answer to write down. This person is not interested in hearing examples or thinking process. It's essentially a pop quiz that gets passed to an engineer afterwards for grading. Unfortunately this method provides little to no feedback. During other interviews with companies, I'd be talking to an engineer and so if I struggled a bit we would work through it together. Here you'll just get stuck and likely fail. If you pass that, which I didn't, the next step is a 1 hour phone interview with an engineer. After that, a 6 hour coding challenge in a screensharing environment so that an engineer can watch you code. This is presumably so that you can't blatantly copy and paste stuff from github or stack overflow. Then there's the onsite interview.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      List all of the sorting algorithms you know and their complexities.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      What is a pure virtual function?
      Answer question

      Question 3

      What are the 4 types of C++ casts?
      Answer question
      4

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