NASA·Software Engineer

NASA Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Hard

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Posted Dec 2009 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

At first, the interview felt more behavioral, focused on my skills and strengths.

That part didn’t feel like the hardest test—it was more about painting a picture of how I worked and what I brought.

Then things shifted into a much tougher hands-on component. I was tested on using JavaScript to manipulate a driving in a simulator through the Google API to become a flight simulator. It was a steep jump from the earlier conversation, and it was hard in a very concrete way because it depended on getting the logic to work.

I did end up receiving an offer. What I remember most is how different the two halves were—easy to talk about myself at the start, then suddenly having to

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