Spacex·Software Engineer

Spacex Software Engineer interview experience

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El Segundo, CAPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My timeline built up from early screens into a more serious multi-round sequence that eventually led to a superday-style onsite in California.

I started with a phone screen, then moved into an at-home coding test, followed by another technical phone conversation, and then the on-site day.

At the onsite, it centered on a presentation about a recent engineering project. After I presented, I went into a full run of interviews that mixed behavioral questions with whiteboarding. The day itself felt long and intense—around half a day in a room with no AC and a lot of waiting between conversations—and I could feel myself getting mentally tired.

What surprised me was how much the process felt like it depended on those early signals from

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