Spacex·Software Engineer

Spacex Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Hawthorne, CAPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started in a fairly standard way with a recruiter screen, but my experience was defined by timing and communication more than the technical content.

The HR screen was unusually extensive, combining the usual identity and motivation questions with additional computer science and physics fundamentals questions. After that, I had to send my availability for the next stage.

I responded a couple of days later, including a weekend, and proposed dates about two to three weeks out to fit my existing schedule. The feedback I got afterward got sharper quickly, and it caught me off guard how fast the tone turned. I ended up withdrawing because the timeline mismatch seemed to override everything else, and the whole environment felt optimized for

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