First, I received a call from the lead technical recruiter.

They asked general questions about my background and why I wanted to work for SpaceX.

After that, the hiring manager called a few days later. This interview was more technical and delved into the projects and experience listed on my resume.

If you pass that stage, they schedule you to fly to CA for the presentation and multiple one-on-one interviews (seven in my case) with experienced engineers.

Most of the questions revolved around your presentation, but a few were curveball, non-engineering questions that had no correct answer but were meant to gauge your approach to solving problems.

Many questions were off-the-cuff, so you could more or less steer the conversation to topics or projects you knew well or wanted to discuss.

Between the presentations and interviews, any engineer could decide to end the recruiting process. At that point, a recruiter would inform you.

If you were designing a truss, where would you put the larger members and why?

How would you estimate the number of potatoes grown in Idaho?

Do you know coding?

Why do you want to work for SpaceX?

How would you improve your project/design if you had more time/resources? How is it better than this other design? How did you perform testing and model correlation?