I feel 100% qualified to do the job I'm interviewing for this week, but I'm mostly just looking for any tips on how to study for a non-coding interview w/ them. Any horror stories? I've checked Glassdoor (and googling) and coming up with mostly small odds/ends here and there. Any tips appreciated!
Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before?
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Re: Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before?
#2recruiter called and offered crazy low base salary
i refused to do coding interviews i have 20+ years of experience i offered to share my code or work on a little project offered contracting
she said but we send people into space here
a job is a job i can’t pay my lanlord with space dust
Re: Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before?
#3No experience, but the company’s hiring practices seem a scam to some extent. They pay little, usually fooling inexperienced people, like, as the commenter above said, that they are sending people to space, and stuff like that. Funny, you over work too.
Re: Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before?
#4recruiter called and offered crazy low base salary i refused to do coding interviews i have 20+ years of experience i offered to share my code or work on a little project offered contracting she said but we send people into space here a job is a job i can’t pay my lanlord with space dust
> recruiter called and offered crazy low base salary
> she said but we send people into space here
This feeling is everywhere now. "But we send people on the roads here". "But we send people on the bottom of the ocean here". We are Agile and only see the quality manager when we jave an escalation meeting with the customer.
Re: Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before?
#5recruiter called and offered crazy low base salary i refused to do coding interviews i have 20+ years of experience i offered to share my code or work on a little project offered contracting she said but we send people into space here a job is a job i can’t pay my lanlord with space dust
> she said but we send people into space here
All big companies do(did?) this - putting low salary and saying but "this is Facebook!" (real story), preying on young gullible people who think Facebook, Google or any big fish is anything worthy to be a part of.
Re: Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before?
#6recruiter called and offered crazy low base salary i refused to do coding interviews i have 20+ years of experience i offered to share my code or work on a little project offered contracting she said but we send people into space here a job is a job i can’t pay my lanlord with space dust
Senior sw make a base salary of 165k and principal at 216k. Do you. Consider these low?
https://www.levels.fyi/companies/spacex/salaries/software-en...
Re: Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before?
#7recruiter called and offered crazy low base salary i refused to do coding interviews i have 20+ years of experience i offered to share my code or work on a little project offered contracting she said but we send people into space here a job is a job i can’t pay my lanlord with space dust
> recruiter called and offered crazy low base salary > she said but we send people into space here This feeling is everywhere now. "But we send people on the roads here". "But we send people on the bottom of the ocean here". We are Agile and only see the quality manager when we jave an escalation meeting with the customer.
sorry, but space must pay more, because the system must be 100% bugfree, and cannot be updated easily.
on the bottom of the sea or on roads you still get live-updates, or at least car callbacks.
you also have severe space and time restrictions, more than in a car or surgical robot.
no agile for sure. there's not much room for agility or changing requirements in space.
Re: Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before?
#8I interviewed with them a bit over a decade ago for an engineering position after I got my master’s degree. The interviewer straight up asked me if I was okay working something like 60 hour weeks. I said nope right then.
Re: Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before?
#9recruiter called and offered crazy low base salary i refused to do coding interviews i have 20+ years of experience i offered to share my code or work on a little project offered contracting she said but we send people into space here a job is a job i can’t pay my lanlord with space dust
> she said but we send people into space here All big companies do(did?) this - putting low salary and saying but "this is Facebook!" (real story), preying on young gullible people who think Facebook, Google or any big fish is anything worthy to be a part of.
Space is different in being an emerging sector where many of the potential business models are not yet viable, and which holds the promise of unlocking massive amounts of resources for humanity.
The FAANG companies are also different in that they already generate massive revenues, so can't credibly claim they can't afford to pay good salaries.
Re: Anybody ever interviewed at SpaceX before?
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> recruiter called and offered crazy low base salary > she said but we send people into space here This feeling is everywhere now. "But we send people on the roads here". "But we send people on the bottom of the ocean here". We are Agile and only see the quality manager when we jave an escalation meeting with the customer.
sorry, but space must pay more, because the system must be 100% bugfree, and cannot be updated easily. on the bottom of the sea or on roads you still get live-updates, or at least car callbacks. you also have severe space and time restrictions, more than in a car or surgical robot. no agile for sure. there's not much room for agility or changing requirements in space.
The highest pressure jobs are at the bottom of the sea