SpaceX Software Engineer L2 Full-time Technical Interview

Role: Software Engineer L2
Result: Rejected after the technical interview

Interview time: October 2023

Initial phone screen

• Scheduled for one hour but lasted only 20–30 minutes
• Covered the candidate's résumé and previous experience
• Included no technical questions

Technical interview — one hour

• About 40 minutes of résumé review and questions about previous work
• About 15 minutes on a Simplified Time-Based Key-Value Store coding task
• About five minutes for the candidate's questions

The coding task was described as a simpler variation of a timestamped key-value store. The custom prompt contained contradictory or impossible logic, and some examples had incorrect outputs, so the candidate had to clarify and correct parts of the task before proceeding. The interviewer also paused several times to respond to work messages.

The process ended in a rejection.