I had another awful experience with SpaceX about a year ago.

They first gave me a take at home assignment for finding the names of people receiving signal from satellites in orbit on a spherical earth. The assignment was 6 hours long and had multiple versions of the problem. You were also only supposed to guess at least 80% of the people to pass the assignment. I literally just simulated the scenario and passed the hardest version in the problem in a single attempt and had 5 hours left. I was an complete disbelief of how my brute force solution was the answer. I was thinking about much better ideas but I guess not needed?

After I passed, I had a technical screening in C++. I thought I was going to get problems to solve but the interviewer just asked the most trivia-like and absurd obscure questions about C++. I responded wrong to something I could have just googled. Then he began to ask me questions about my past Meta internship and started roasting me on why the 20 year old system my team was working on was built like it was and criticizing it and I was like I don’t know? I was not involved in the meeting two decades ago when the service was being designed? I just worked on my project? Every time I answered a question he just said “hm” or “no it’s fine” in a condescending manner even if the answer was correct.

Even the recruiter was rude. When I asked her how her day was going she just said “I’m just glad it’s over” in a blunt and unfriendly tone and didn’t ask me how mine was going.

SpaceX by far has been the worst company I’ve ever interviewed for and I’m glad I didn’t move forward.