Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en SpaceX
Entrevista
Someone from HR called to schedule a phone interview. The first interview was pretty straight forward. They asked me a bunch of undergraduate structures questions:
- cantilevered beam with load at the end, where will it fail and why, how would you design the cross section to allow it to withstand more force, etc
- vertical cantilevered beam with compressive force, where/how will it fail and why, how would you design the cross section so that it can withstand more force, given a certain mass would you choose aluminum or steel
After that we mostly talked about the company and the structures group within the company. HR called back a few days later to schedule a second phone interview, this time with finite element methods in addition to structures. All the technical talk revolved around the question "how would you model a rocket?" This included talking about boundary conditions in a rocket model, what types of elements would be used, and how you would go about checking the accuracy of someone else's model.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
None. All the questions are fairly straightforward. They take what you're good at and see if can you apply this topic to rockets.
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en SpaceX en mar 2026
Entrevista
My interview experience at SpaceX was disappointing. The expectations felt extremely high, even for mid-level roles. Missing even one or two questions seemed to stop the process, and there was little tolerance for not knowing something.
It felt like they prioritize candidates who already know everything rather than those willing to learn. Overall, a very rigid and negative experience.
Round 1) Recruiter Phone Call
Round 2-4+) Phone call with Lead Engineer, Manager, etc.
Round 5) On-Site with Technical Presentation and One-on-Ones
I found the questions in the in-person one-on-ones were equal or slightly harder than the phone screening questions
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Pregunta 1
Why SpaceX? (Was asked this during all four phone screenings)
Acudí a una entrevista en SpaceX (Brownsville, TX)
Entrevista
1 on 1 interview standard fundamental mech questions from coursework fluids, statics, structures, heat transfer, thermo etc. asked lots of questions and follow ups to get a gauge of thinking
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Pregunta 1
fixed cantilever beam point load p at the end what is the defleciton eq?
