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Propulsion Engineer Interview Experience

June 21, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I met a recruiter at my school's career fair. I apparently impressed him, because I received an invitation to apply.

SpaceX looks at your resume for all positions, so the position I applied for was not the one I was considered for.

About a month after the career fair, I was requested to interview for a position as a propulsion design engineer, which was one of the fields for which I expressed interest during the career fair.

I was contacted by a member of HR who asked me a couple quick questions. One of them was to confirm that my GPA was the one I stated on my resume, which was a strange question in my opinion – I listed a middling GPA. Afterwards, we set up a time for a group phone technical interview. Details were sent to me by email.

The interviewers were three members of the propulsion design team: two senior engineers and one junior engineer. They took turns asking me questions about my knowledge and experience, and also asked me a couple things about GD&T, phrased in a way I wasn't expecting.

My program doesn't teach GD&T, so I fumbled the question rather badly. A couple weeks later, I was contacted by phone and informed that I was not selected for further interviews.

The experience was a good one. SpaceX was very professional at all levels of the hiring process.

Questions

How would you use geometric dimensioning and tolerancing to describe a hole?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 55 interview experiences for the SpaceX Propulsion Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

18%
Pass Rate

SpaceX's interview process for their Propulsion Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive55%
Neutral31%
Negative15%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for SpaceX's Propulsion Engineer interview process in United States.

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