#!process spacex final

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icy wyvern
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yo what role

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i also got final

zenith thicket
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Direct to cell

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wbu

icy wyvern
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ya i had round 1 then round 2

icy wyvern
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i had phone

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then i just had my 1 on 1 with team lead for 1.5 hours

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then i think i passed and im going to go on site next

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are they flying you out?

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how long after interview did it take to learn? I was going to ask my recruiter today but its already friday after 5pm nobody is working

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mostl likely wont know till monday

zenith thicket
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The role im interviewing for is Starlink (Direct to Cell)

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I had a recruiter screen, take home coding test, then 45 min with a senior engineer and now they are flying me out for onsite

icy wyvern
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i talked with a guy today team lead did u also?

zenith thicket
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I had senior interview at end of day yesterday and they sent me email invite to onsite this morning

icy wyvern
zenith thicket
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I dont think the engineer i interviewed w was the team lead

icy wyvern
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i cannot get a response till monday

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bro this guy grilled me for 90 minutes

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it wasnt typical ng interview stuff all kubernetes , kafka, a lot of questions about linux kernel, and coding

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im starlink team though just sre

zenith thicket
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For the team im interviewing for there are super focused on c so he just grilled me on my c exp and then we whiteboarded some code questions

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like debugging a small function he wrote, going through code and saying output of the buffer etc

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ill cross my fingers you hear back monday tho

icy wyvern
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thanks in the interview the guy said my answers were good

zenith thicket
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should be chilling

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ive heard they aren't shy about denying people who got flown out so they prob do a fair amount of onsites

icy wyvern
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my code was flawless but i made a minor mistake putting {} instead of () because he was rushing me at the end and it passed test case i wrote

zenith thicket
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yeah def not a big deal

icy wyvern
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arent shy about denying 💀

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mf if u fly me out u better be like 75% to offer certainty before

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why do they even fly u out it should just be 2 rounds then offer

zenith thicket
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well some companies dont wanna fly you out if they arent sure but thats def not the case for spacex based on what ive heard haha

icy wyvern
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💀

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i gotta grind bro

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they going to do hardcore stuff

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ive never been in onsite before

zenith thicket
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ive had onsite panels but never this like superday type thing so def a bit nervewracking lol

icy wyvern
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same and for me its in an area im like somewhat knowledgeable on but not really an 'expert' like they seem to believe (the whole kubernetes thing)

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he said they do on premisis kubernetes so they need a guy that can manage the system

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but i can grind it out no biggie i think

zenith thicket
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well lmk if you hear back monday

icy wyvern
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sure

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did u send a follow up email?

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thanking them

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idk if i should

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i thanked in the interview

zenith thicket
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I didnt even have the email of the engineer i interviewed w lol I've only emailed back and forth w my recruiter

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but in generally prob just depends how personal the interview was, if you really got along with them prob wouldnt hurt but imo if it was just like purely technical not a big deal to send a thank you email

icy wyvern
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I JUST GOT IT

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I GOT I T

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I GOT IT I GOT IT I GOT IT

zenith thicket
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haha dubsss nice

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not 5pm on west coast yet haha

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is your role in sunnyvale?

icy wyvern
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OH I FORGOT

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no its in that near la

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we can meet each other yo

zenith thicket
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ah damn mines at the sunnyvale office

icy wyvern
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its some random city near la i cant even remember

zenith thicket
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prob el segundo if its in LA?

icy wyvern
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no um let me link the role

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hawthorne

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i am not from cali i live in georgia

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so idk the cities

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besides la

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i always wanted to live there though

zenith thicket
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ah nice thats right next to el segundo so i was close lol

icy wyvern
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what availability did u give

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is 3 days okay

worn dragon
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How did u guys prepare for the phone interview with an engineer? The recruiter said there is no coding…

icy wyvern
worn dragon
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but like how did u guys prepare cuz there should be technical questions

icy wyvern
worn dragon
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Software engineer starlink flight software

icy wyvern
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but generally

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u are going to get grilled on low level stuff very specific to the role

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try and guess what they want from you

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for me it was kubernetes knowledge and linux debugging / kernel knowledge

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then study that in depth

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also mine had a lc med in the interview

worn dragon
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Oh did u guess all that based on the job description?

icy wyvern
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spacex is team dependent

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u need to base it off your phone screen

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its like apple

zenith thicket
zenith thicket
icy wyvern
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sucks spacex process is obsessed with being fast

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they dont want to let u have time to prep

zenith thicket
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youre never gonna be able to prep for every single question or topic they might ask so part of it is just luck of the draw lol

icy wyvern
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how much do u think u can get 'wrong' and still get offer

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i got lucky on my online interview

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idk if i will get lucky again without a lot of prep

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also do u think they will ask sys design

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my guy had sys design in the codility editor but he only asked me the coding question

zenith thicket
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for my role theres been no mention of sys design thus far so im not gonna prep it

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but if its been mentioned to you prob should take a look at it

icy wyvern
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mine i assume they going to drill me on linux kernel and debugging, kubernetes implementation, some coding, hmm i have techical deep dive round & programming deep dive round thats the main thing

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other 2 rounds are just career deep dive, and culture fit/team match round

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they wont ask me the same stuff again though right

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so what else would they ask i hope they dont up the difficulty even further

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also btw, did they ask u to fill out this 3 impressive things you've done in the form

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i dont have anything to say 💀

zenith thicket
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yeh lol i was caught off guard by that

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i lowkey just restated my resume on it lol

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im a fresh grad so i have no promotions or anything to speak of lol

icy wyvern
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i was thinking of saying, fun fact i speed ran my BSc degree in CS in 2 years but idk if that is good or bad

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i was going to mention i compiled my own linux distro

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but i havent done that yet, im just reading it

zenith thicket
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yeah talking about any projects or internships you care about is prob best way

icy wyvern
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i worked alongside a startup founder and helped him build out projects in my intern

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idk if that is something impressive

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btw @zenith thicket is it important to submit my doc today or can i wait till sunday

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because nobody will read it on weekend anyways

zenith thicket
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you can prob take your time since its a weekend

worn dragon
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gl to u guys! I will have my phone interview next friday and I hope i didnt bomb it

icy wyvern
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@vale sparrow

icy wyvern
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@zenith thicket did u get your tickets and hotel yet

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i think i will get mine today

zenith thicket
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nah not yet

zenith thicket
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@icy wyvern Just got the email w date, they are sending me booking thing some point today

icy wyvern
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what day are u going if u dont mind sharing or wanna dm

zenith thicket
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Lol i submitted friday just give em a day

icy wyvern
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imagine we go the same day

icy wyvern
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or well i gave it early this morning

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btw dood i discovered something

zenith thicket
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Mine is friday, but im going to sunnyvale office not Hawthorne

icy wyvern
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elon musks 5 step engineering design process might have been what they were trying to analyze from those questions

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they might do a followup on site and ask u to expalin how u solved and it would be excellent to incorporate this

icy wyvern
zenith thicket
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thanks, Ill def give it a read

icy wyvern
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i want more prep time

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im terrified of this 😭

zenith thicket
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That was the first date I gave them lol, so prob expect them to take the first thing you gave

icy wyvern
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do they tell you that your their 'leading candidate' and the team 'is really excited to meet you' idk if i should believe or its corporate speak

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i gave 14,15,16

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i was thinking of only giving 16 💀

zenith thicket
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I havent been hit with leading candidate but i get the excited in every email so i wouldnt give it too much thought

icy wyvern
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they called me "subject matter expert" too

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im like bro i barely know what im talking about

zenith thicket
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fake it till you become it

icy wyvern
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exactlyy

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got this far just got to seal it and take home a sweet 200k package

zenith thicket
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i sure as hell shouldnt be at this stage either lol

icy wyvern
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you think their bar is low?

zenith thicket
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I wouldnt say that lol maybe just luck of the draw

icy wyvern
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it just feels like they are taking anyone who has a surface level idea of the subject and can do basic coding

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i studied their whole 'sre' interview in like a few days

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idk what onsite will bring though, probably more of the same they dont go into deep kubernetes problems

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its always just, how would you set this up, what happens when you run this command, how do you find processor usage in terminal

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like basic interview questions id call it maybe level 1 or level 2 knowledge

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level 3 or 4 would be actually building out these systems at scale and talking about the challenges which they haven't seem to ask. they dont even ask system design which is unusual for these roles

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gotta keep studying though and hope i can just crush this. lower the bar better for me.

zenith thicket
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yeah im interviewing for a L1 role, but i honestly have had harder interviews with way smaller companies

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we'll see how the onsite is tho

icy wyvern
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prayge for you

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what do you think tc package will be?

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i see some network guys with 2 yoe get 200k+

zenith thicket
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thanks, ill def keep ya posted

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I honestly dont have a solid guess, but i would guess either a little below 200 or just around 200

icy wyvern
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soo good out of college

zenith thicket
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yeah i def wasnt dreaming of that 2 months ago haha

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would be quite a dream job so def praying it goes wellgladge

icy wyvern
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gotta give me a call after u on site

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its ours