Spacex Software Engineer interview experience

But the engineering manager interview changed the tone immediately.

That round focused intensely on a single project of mine. Instead of broadly checking my engineering knowledge, they dove very deep into the details of that one area, drilling down far beyond what I expected.

I didn’t make it past that second-round step. The reason felt tied to that interview being narrowly scoped and extremely deep, and I left realizing that how you frame and defend one specific project mattered more than I assumed.