Chaotic, misleading, and largely disrespectful of time. I spent four months interviewing with Starlink, supposedly reached the offer stage, and then was ghosted.

I was yanked around multiple times with no explanation after passing the coding screen. The first team I interviewed for closed their opening (no explanation), at which point I was shifted to another Starlink team.

The onsite for this team was exhausting: I was deposited in a conference room and battered by groups of one or two engineers for most of the day with no breaks. One engineer in a two-on-one round repeatedly would ask a question and then fiddle with his phone as I talked. Not a single person gave me an opportunity to ask any questions of my own (aside from during the initial 30-minute tour and lunch with a recruiter).

Over a week later, I was informed that I passed (no meaningful feedback provided) and that I would have a “final” call with a director (which was rescheduled multiple times on short notice). This call went well and I was told an offer was being generated. Over a week passed and I was told I would now have a “final final” call with the VP of Starlink. I submitted my availability and that was the last I heard from Starlink.

I’m baffled by how long this process took and by the almost complete lack of feedback at every step of the way.

The coding screen problem is a pretty cool beamforming problem that has been mentioned in more detail in other reviews. It's better than LeetCode.

Hiring manager screens were mostly conversational but included a strange verbal system design component.

Onsite rounds included:

• A presentation about a past project
• Whiteboard system design
• Whiteboard coding

Most questions were tailored to problems that the team directly works on, which felt very grounded and practical (no generic “design Facebook” nonsense).