Take-Home Assignments

Many SpaceX software loops include a take-home, but not all of them. Some teams give a live coding round in its place, and some give both, so ask your recruiter which you're getting. When there is a take-home, it's the longest coding step in the process. Four hours is typical. A six-hour version for a Hawthorne software role also asked for a written summary of ideas next to the code. Hidden test cases score the program, so a crash or a stray separator in the output costs you that case.

If you have a take-home coming, put most of your practice time into the first problem below. It's the one candidates report most often, and it's a big build with geometry and capacity rules that interact.

The other two are smaller, one from a Hawthorne software take-home and one from a data engineering take-home. Both leave rules open, so write down what you assumed before you start.

SpaceXPremium lesson · Coding round

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1. 1A Premium questionCoding · Hard · Signature problem
2. 2A Premium questionCoding · Medium
3. 3A Premium questionCoding · Medium

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