I met a SpaceX employee at a volunteering event, and he asked me to send him my resume.

He liked it and told me to look at SpaceX's website and search for positions that I found interesting. I mentioned propulsion.

HR contacted me within a week and scheduled an interview with the employee I had met. However, he worked for structures, so I was interviewing for a structures position instead of propulsion.

It was an hour-long technical phone interview. We discussed some projects that I had completed and he asked me theoretical structures questions.

The next day, HR contacted me again and scheduled an interview with the structures manager. This was also an hour-long technical phone interview, but this time we talked more in-depth about the projects I had completed.

Unfortunately, HR contacted me within a week informing me that I did not get the position.

If you had to build a mass-efficient bridge from one building to another, how would you make it?

• Cross-section shape
• Material used
• Fixtures
• Max deflection
• Max stress
• Sources of failure