Spacex Software Engineer interview experience

I didn’t get past the OA stage, and the frustrating part was that it didn’t feel like the usual LeetCode-style coding; the topic was satellites and the format was more about applying constraints than doing classic problem-solving drills.

After that, I still had a very clear picture of how the rest of the pipeline typically looked when I talked through it with the recruiter and used that understanding to prepare. There was a next coding round that involved a LeetCode-medium style problem, then an onsite where I’d have to present a project I’d worked on and go into several background