I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks.

A recruiter approached me on LinkedIn and mentioned that I would be a good fit for the position. After a brief phone call with the recruiter, I moved on to another brief interview with the hiring manager. I talked about my experience and what I had worked on in the past.

Next was a take-home assignment to be completed in either Rust or C++20. It took a bit over 2 hours. Following this, I had a 1-hour interview with an engineer on the automation team about my solution and design considerations. Following this was a panel interview that consisted of 2 system design interviews, 1 behavioral "outdoor walk" interview, and an interview with the hiring manager about communication bus design.

The panel interview was unorganized, as they didn't have whiteboards set up in a way for me to show the interviewers my design. The questions they asked seemed to imply they don't fully understand or adhere to industry flight safety standards yet. This is terrifying, considering the size and scope of their P2 project and how much P1 has flown. Their senior or lead-level engineers did not engage in deep dialogue about bus-level design, system-level design, and algorithms, which is abnormal.

When I asked what they were looking for, I was told a senior who can drive flight software design and write good requirements for their P2 product autonomously. I was told that they'd deliberate and get back to me the following week, but I received a phone call the following morning saying I didn't have enough autonomy experience, which is interesting, considering I was interviewing for the flight software and not the autonomy team. I asked for more feedback but was promptly ghosted.

Design and write two functions: one for queuing 'zip' and one for planning its route.

Design an automated car braking system.