I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at SpaceX (Los Angeles, CA) in Apr 2016
Interview
The process was heavily focused on the technical side. There was no in-person interview, and the phone interviews felt like oral exams in fluid mechanics and numerical methods. There were a lot of questions that were difficult for me to answer, but the interviewer (who is now my boss) asked them more to gauge my level of knowledge than as a hard line.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you know the difference between shared memory and distributed memory designs?
I applied online, and a recruiter reached out a few months later to set up my first interview with a Team Lead. It went well so I moved onto the second interview with the Team Manager. Both interviews were extremely technical and they grilled you on your projects.
The interview started off with the interviewer asking a few behavioral questions, with the majority of the interview consisted of technical questions about engineering fundamentals and applying them to scenarios
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Which pillar in a rigid structure bears the most weight?
Very simple questions, but very specific to the role. There were multiple rounds, and each round was different. Again, very specific to the role and i was rejected for one position, then my former interviews were used to determine my qualification for a different position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me technical questions about RLC circuit analysis and how to measure voltage and current.