Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso SpaceX (San Jose, CA) nel mese di ott 2020
Colloquio
Two voice calls, first one with the recruiter and then an engineering questions interview followed by two (scheduled ) online "codility" programming tests at which point I decided to give SpaceX the wide berth that is suggested here by many others rather than subject myself to the insanity of these online tests.
One day companies might realize that this kind of highly impersonal dehumanizing hiring process is quite broken. It really bears no resemblance whatsoever to the daily work that we all do as software engineers and it is far more likely to turn away and turn off the best talent and discourage the best coworkers. Stop hazing your candidates with meaningless hurdles. An engineer who has been over 20 years in the business likely DOES know how to code people.
Particularly when I learned that they'd need up to 8 hours of my time for just one of these tests to simply figure out if I could actually code (something accomplished by other companies in less than 45 minutes) so I basically called that rubbish and I decided to withdraw from this retarded hiring process.
Domande di colloquio [1]
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The technical interview with a human being was standard stuff, multithreading, architecture, coding, similar boilerplate technical questions and a discussion of their current needs. At least up to this point I was still very interested in exploring the opportunity. Then things got stranger.
La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso SpaceX (Hawthorne, CA)
Colloquio
They moved quick and it was a streamlined interview process. One screen phone call and two video calls. There was an opportunity to send a sample of past presentations I gave and it was forwarded, and well received. The hiring manager and HR were fine. This place is 150% hype with a regular level of benefits and pay for this area. The third interviewer was fake, bias, and not professional at all. All interviews went well. They rejected me two days later. They only want foreigners for those higher positions and California is the land of foreigners. The feedback was illogical and ridiculous. Essentially, it said we need a person to setup and manage a software (which I have 15 years of experience in), but we don't have a position open for that software and we don't have a need. The position I just interviewed for is an open position involving that software they complained about.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso SpaceX
Colloquio
First step is a recruiter call with some typical background questions, followed by a fairly difficult, timed take home assessment, and then finally a 5 part on-site interview session which included a presentation to the entire team you'd be working with.
Domande di colloquio [1]
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Describe and present on a previous project you worked on, in great technical detail.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto 3 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso SpaceX (Redmond, WA) nel mese di mar 2024
Colloquio
A recruiter contacted me. We had a phone call, then a call with a lead SWE. Then was given a take home test that is supposed to take 2-4 hours, took me about 2.5 hours. After submitting, a SWE reviews your submission and you then get invited to the on-site. I was invited for the on-site but I declined to continue the process further; just not the right time for me to move companies.
Domande di colloquio [2]
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Tech-screen: rapid-fire questions about C++, memory allocation, pointers, etc.