I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at SpaceX (Hawthorne, CA) in May 2019
Interview
recruiter reached out to me, had a conversation over a phone, took an online quiz, and then phone interview. process was smooth until I failed a phone interview. They took too long after the phone interview so I contacted my recruiter on linkedin, but was ignored and I got an automated "thank you for you interested, but-" email a day after. online quiz was easy but phone interview depends on your knowledge in network.
Applied online has two round. First being an phone call with recruiter and the second being online with a team of engineer asked about my previous experience and then had a short coding leetcode style question
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain a recent debugging problem and how you solved it.
Basic questions about python vs c++, am I authorized to work in the US, stack vs heap, projects and my experience mentioned in my resume, quick introduction about myself and why i wish to work at spacex.
Recruiter screens usually hit: time/space complexity of common operations, why O(log n) beats O(n), array vs hash map vs linked list tradeoffs, and Big-O of sorting. Want me to drill you on these?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
recruiter called, they has a few big O questions and basic DSA