NASA·Software Engineer

NASA Software Engineer interview experience

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Cape Canaveral, FLPosted Jul 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process ended up feeling a bit unconventional.

I was contacted to schedule a phone interview about a week after applying, and the format wasn’t really a back-and-forth conversation. The interviewer would ask questions and type my responses, but they didn’t respond to what I wrote or build on it, which made it hard to gauge what they were thinking.

The questions were mostly tied to the project and my experience, but since I only had schooling and no work experience, some prompts were genuinely tough to answer in a way that showed depth. The interview also felt narrowly constrained—there was limited space to demonstrate knowledge, and I

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