Recruiter Interview [phone]:

A few basic behavioral questions and then we went down through my resume to discuss my experiences. It was a straightforward interview, and the interviewer was incredibly nice. He helped me through the rest of the interview process.

Coding Test [online]:

Four questions:

• Write a simple algorithm to do X.
• Here's a brute-force algorithm; you should optimize it.
• Write an efficient algorithm to do Y.
• Debug the following code by changing less than four lines.

Technical Interview [phone]:

This interview was with the lead engineer on the team. When emailing about this, they said to prepare to discuss my personal technical achievements, but rather I was quizzed on networking, knowledge of Python/multi-threading, and operating systems. The only question about my professional experience was to ask me what I was most proud of on my resume.

Why do you want to work at SpaceX?

If you were communicating between the rocket's main computer and given sensors, would you use TCP or UDP and why?