SpaceX Starship Software Engineer Full-time Video Interview

Role: Starship Software Engineer
Result: Not disclosed

Report time: 3/13/2025

The interview was a one-on-one video call. It began with questions about the candidate's understanding of Starship and SpaceX before moving into live coding in C++.

The live-coding task was Speed-to-Pressure Lookup, using a hard-coded table of speed and pressure values. Given a speed, the algorithm had to return the pressure associated with the lower boundary of the matching speed interval.

The candidate initially treated the task as a mathematical problem and built more structure than necessary. The interviewer repeatedly encouraged a simpler solution. After removing a class, exception handling, and unnecessary console input, the implementation became a straightforward set of conditional checks.

A runtime error was fixed, and the final test case passed. The final hiring outcome was not disclosed.