J'ai postulé via un établissement d'enseignement supérieur ou universitaire. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez SpaceX (Vandenberg AFB, CA) en mars 2015
Entretien
SpaceX visited my university, where I talked to an alumnus engineer. After, I got contacted by a recruiter, where I had a 20 minute phone screen. Two days later I had a technical phone interview with two engineers from the team I'd be working on. That day I was notified I got through to the final round. I went on-site a few weeks later and gave a twenty-minute presentation on a technical project I worked on and went through some more technical interviews. That day (again) I was notified that pending executive approval, I was to be given an offer. The process was very fast and the fact that you are notified of the results of that interview that day is particularly a nice change of pace.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
If I had a quadrotor drone that worked on Earth and put it on Mars, how would it behave differently?
J'ai passé un entretien chez SpaceX (Vandenberg AFB, CA)
Entretien
interview process was long and tedious. started with a recruiter screening, minimal technical questions, then moved to a hiring manager technical interview, following this was a technical presentation to a panel of engineers, i was then brought on site for an interview which included another pannel interview, site walkaround and questioning, then a written multiple choise mechanical assessmnet.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
shear and moment diagrams, fluid basics, pipe flow, compressible flow.
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez SpaceX (Cape Canaveral, FL) en nov. 2025
Entretien
The interview started with 15 minute going through your past project / experiences. Followed up with 15 minute rapid fire technical questions (3 questions including topics from mechanical, fluids, and FEA)
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
If your FEA tells you the part fails, do you trust it?
J'ai passé un entretien chez SpaceX (Vandenberg AFB, CA)
Entretien
The first round was a technical interview with lots of rapid fire technical questions. It was over the phone which made it hard to stop and think about how to answer each question.