We had first a brief interview followed by a design exercise.

The exercise was for a different discipline from my background, which Rocket Lab was fully aware of since we had already discussed my CV. Furthermore, the task was ridiculously complicated and would have required much more than the 48h that were allocated.

After investing 48 hours to complete the task in the best manner, my application was dismissed with no feedback whatsoever, which is considerably rude and unprofessional since I explicitly requested further information twice by email.

The feeling was something between being scammed and an absolutely uncompensated waste of time and effort. There should be more control on how companies conduct their recruitment processes.

I was asked to design an electric mechanism.