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Ursa Space Systems interviews FAQs
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Ursa Space Systems with 2.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 25% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Ursa Space Systems overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Ursa Space Systems as a Software Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Ursa Space Systems
Easy interview
Application
I applied online. I interviewed at Ursa Space Systems in Jun 2019
Interview
Beware of low salary offers!!!
I should say that I am a minority: woman and immigrant. I graduated as valedictorian of my engineering school and had 4 years of experience at the time of interview.
During the negotiation process for salary, I had stated to the CEO that I was interested in around 100k. Immediately when I stated that, I saw disappointment on the CEO's face and the language changed from "we would love to have you at Ursa" to "if you *choose* to work for us."
They offered me slightly above 80k and I declined that. Without even any negotiation, I was very easily able to get 105k with yearly 10k bonuses at a remote, NYC-based company and was quickly promoted to 122k within a year. Negotiating this would have been very difficult at Ursa.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Various behavioral questions about my strengths and weaknesses
- Greatest technical challenge in my past
- Design Twitter
- Design a data ingestion pipeline for satellite images
- What is array, hash table, dictionary, tree, vector? Runtime and space complexity?
The first step was solving the engineering questions on an automated system. Once completed, HR reached our for an initial interview. Next, I interviewed with the CTO. The next interview was with the chief scientist. The final interview was a pair programming exercise with the lead developer.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Ursa Space Systems (Ithaca, NY)
Interview
I submitted my resume online and then went into the office on two different days. The interview on the first day was 3-4 hours and the second day was about 2 hours long.
Most of the interview focused on behavioral questions or technical questions related to the resume.
There was also a 1-hour technical interview where I was asked to design a social media site with specific features, and talk about the backend's business logic, database's data models, and basic functionality on the frontend. I wasn't interviewing for a frontend position, so the focus was on the backend & data models.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was your biggest technical challenge and how did you overcome it?