Weird Interview Questions: SpaceX Edition
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Job interviews are the worst. In a small time period, you have to prove to a complete stranger why you’re better than the other complete strangers who also want the job. The nerves, the interview etiquette and the fear of the unknown all make interviews one of the most uncomfortable parts of modern life. Usually, the tougher the role, the tougher the interview and this is definitely the case for interns at Elon Musk’s SpaceX. An internship at this company, which plans to be the first to colonise Mars, has to work 80 hours per week- designing rockets and solving complicated physics problems.
What SpaceX imagine a city built on Mars would look like.
To ensure that only the best people are hired, the interview questions for SpaceX are very specialised and challenging. If you fancy an internship at SpaceX, you might have to answer some of these one day.
What is the size of an integer on a 32-bit system?
Let’s say you have a variable ‘var’ assigned to be ‘2’. What will display if you print ‘var++’? If you print ‘++var’ on the next line, what will be displayed? What is the final value of ‘var’?
Imagine a cantilever beam fixed at one end with a mass = m and a length = L. If this beam is subject to an inertial force and a uniformly distributed load = w, what is the moment present at a length of L/4?