SpaceX interview questions
Updated Jun 4, 2026Difficulty
Average
Experience
Mostly positive
How others got an interview
- 14%RecruiterRecruiter
- 9%Employee ReferralEmployee Referral
- 5%Campus RecruitingCampus Recruiting
- 2%OtherOther
- 1%In PersonIn Person
- 0%Staffing AgencyStaffing Agency
Interview search
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SpaceX interviews FAQs
- Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at SpaceX as 65% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.45 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Software Engineer and Structures Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Mechanical Engineer and Business Analyst roles were rated as the easiest.
- The hiring process at SpaceX takes an average of 28 days when considering 20 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Additive Manufacturing Engineer %28Raptor%29 had the quickest hiring process (on average 2 days), whereas Materials Engineering roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 60 days).
- Common stages of the interview process at SpaceX according to 20 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
Skills test: 19%
Presentation: 16%
One on one interview: 16%
Personality test: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Background check: 5%
Drug test: 3%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
- Engineer(122) ;
- Intern(99) ;
- Software Engineer(90) ;
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- Technician(56) ;
- Integration Technician(53) ;
- Manufacturing Engineer(47) ;
- Vehicle Engineering(47) ;
- Quality Inspector(43) ;
- Engineering Intern(38) ;
- Launch Engineer(33) ;
- Intern - Hourly(32) ;
- Avionics Intern(31) ;
- Structures Engineer(31) ;
- Avionics Engineer(30) .
