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.
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The following metrics were computed from 55 interview experiences for the SpaceX Propulsion Engineer role in United States.
SpaceX's interview process for their Propulsion Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Candidates reported having very good feelings for SpaceX's Propulsion Engineer interview process in United States.