Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at SpaceX with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 43% positive. To compare, the company-average is 53.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 145 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 Software Engineer according to 145 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 17%
Skills test: 17%
Presentation: 12%
Group panel interview: 9%
Background check: 5%
Personality test: 3%
Other: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Drug test: 2%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
Thirty min phone screen with recruiter (go over resume, a few general technical questions), forty five min technical phone interview (tell me about most technically complex project), fly out to in person onsite in Austin
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
And can you tell me the difference between a hash map and hash table?
first the recruiter called me and asked normal behavioral questions, then they guided you over to a techincal screen where you have a long time to answer one of their questions
coding assessment including DSP related topics, take home with test cases. full test had unknown test cases that were extensions of given tests. Also included phone technical interview, coding fundamentals and RF topics
Applied online has two round. First being an phone call with recruiter and the second being online with a team of engineer asked about my previous experience and then had a short coding leetcode style question
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain a recent debugging problem and how you solved it.