Rocket Lab·Software Engineer

Rocket Lab Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

United StatesPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started with a recruiter reaching out and moving quickly into early scheduling.

I had a short phone conversation, then I was pushed ahead to meet a senior software engineer and received a take-home test to complete. I did it promptly over the weekend and sent it back as requested, and then everything just stalled.

What made it stand out was the lack of closure—there was no review of the submission and no clear rejection. I kept following up, and I never got a direct, timely explanation; the communication just faded. In another stretch of the process, logistics also went sideways around plans that were supposed to include an engineering-team conversation before the

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