Draper Labs Software Engineer interview experience

That call lasted around an hour, and it was framed around them explaining the nature of the work and asking questions to see how well my background fit. The pace wasn’t frantic, but I felt the interviewer expected me to be comfortable with topics that I hadn’t encountered much.

I remember getting pulled on qualifications that were tied to the job posting—something like the expectation of strong probability and statistics background. I had a mechanical engineering degree with controls coursework, but it turned out the position seemed misaligned with what I’d studied. As we went on, I could