Spacex Software Engineer interview experience

What stuck with me was a pattern around how decisions seemed to get made: the process looked like it often balanced an external strong profile against an internal candidate who already understood the company and had experience that mapped more directly to the role.

Because of that, the outcome in the process I observed leaned heavily toward the internal person most familiar with how things worked. I didn’t end up getting an offer, and what I learned from the experience was that fit at SpaceX can be less about raw potential and more about how quickly someone can ramp inside the existing