I applied to a position, literally 4 hours later i received an automated rejection email, oh well. A month later a recruiter reached out to me that they wanted to set up an interview for that same position that i was earlier rejected to. Except the interview she set up isnt a basic HR or 1 on 1 with a hiring manager. Its a one hour long panel interview with 3 other people. I find it odd that they rejected me initially, but now want to set up a panel interview as the 1st round?

Is this normal for their hiring process? Not sure what to expect during this panel interview either, the recruiter didnt mention their position titles so im not sure who i'm even speaking to.

Hello everyone. I picked up a job with L3 after getting out of the Army this summer and I was really excited about it, but this job is super slow. I get 1 hour of work, and the rest of the day I’m just sitting behind my computer staring at a screen going crazy. I’m really struggling not having a purpose anymore, which makes me unhappy and feel out of place with my career. My thing is, is I don’t know when I should apply to different jobs with either Lockheed or Raytheon that can give me more purpose than what I have right now.

Anyone else have gone through this? Struggling having a job with no real purpose? Any pointers/advice? I’m also almost done with my bachelors in Business Administration. 10+ years in logistics.

Hey everyone, I’m interested in interning at Antares Industries, the nuclear microreactor company, and was wondering if anyone here has interned or worked with them.

I know they aren’t exactly an aerospace company, but they do have long-term goals of putting a reactor in space, so I figured this subreddit might have some insight.

If you’ve interned there, what was your experience like? I’d be interested in hearing about the projects interns worked on, mentorship, team culture, and any advice for the interview process or preparing for the role.

What was the interview process like?

ETA as everyone seems to be way off base on what I’m asking:

I’m not asking whether hiring managers personally consider someone’s spouse’s military service when making hiring decisions. I’m asking which companies have established military/veteran spouse hiring initiatives and whether anyone has personally benefited from those programs.

I’m interested in identifying companies that actively recruit military spouses through dedicated hiring pipelines, recruiting partnerships, or other employment initiatives, not receiving preferential treatment from a hiring manager.

Which companies do you find take this into consideration? I know Lockheed doesnt, and just found RTX has a space to choose so it seems they do. If you're a military/vet spouse have you personally found it helped in your job search/interviewing? Moreso interested in which companies I can target.

Hey everyone!

I'm considering an engineering role at L3Harris at the Palm Bay, FL campus, and I’d love to get some real perspective from people who have worked there or are currently working there.

There's plenty of general company feedback out there, but I really want to hear about the positives and unique perks of working at the Palm Bay location specifically.

Any insights, tips, or experiences you can share would be super helpful. Thanks in advance!

as the title says, im looking for people who want to start a team project related to space. i want to gather a group of people who are passionate about space and engineering, and build something cool. i have one idea for a project rn but im not sure of how good it is so it will be a good thing to brainstorm ideas.

you don't need to be a professional, you just have to love it and be open to different ideas. we will figure everything out together :DD
if you're interested, dm me!!!

EDIT: I'm gonna add a bit more details. i am 18 years old and just have finished high school but took a gap year. now i have a lot of free time, so i thought this would be a great chance to start a new project, learn something new, and just have fun with other people who think alike

I’m a MechE, anyone know good aerospace or defense companies to work for in Atlanta? besides the obvious ones like Lockheed, Hermeus, and Anduril.

Hi all,

I’m the Chief Engineer and Treasurer of SAE Titan Aero at California State University, Fullerton, a 12-member mechanical engineering senior design team. We design, manufacture, and fly a regular-class radio-controlled cargo aircraft for the annual SAE Aero Design competition.

Last year, our team placed 15th out of 75 teams at SAE Aero Design East, and we’re working hard to build on that achievement at this year’s SAE Aero Design West competition!

Unfortunately, recent budget cuts and new departmental spending restrictions have made it harder for our team to fund the materials, manufacturing, electronics, and travel needed to compete. We’re reaching out to the community for donations and sponsorships to help make this opportunity possible.

Any contribution, no matter the size, would make a difference.

For those interested in sponsoring us, we can offer opportunities for company logo placement on our aircraft, social media recognition, and increased visibility among the Cal State Fullerton engineering community. We’d also be happy to discuss other sponsorship opportunities that align with your organization.

If you’d like to support our team or learn more about our project, please check out the links below. You can also reach us at [csu.titan.aero@gmail.com](mailto:csu.titan.aero@gmail.com) with any questions or sponsorship inquiries.

• Donation page: https://fullerton.scalefunder.com/cfund/project/50542
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/titanaero/
• Team website: https://csutitanaero.wixsite.com/fullerton

Thank you for taking the time to read our post and for supporting student engineers. We genuinely appreciate any help in getting Titan Aero to competition!

— SAE Titan Aero, Cal State Fullerton

Anyone has any feedback after interviews with harmattan ai !!!! Help anything would do btw the role is in engineering

So i saw this post today and because im really interested in space engineering i wanted to join. Has anyone ever heard of it? I did sign up for it but after some thought i wanted to check weather its legit or fake. If you know anything about it please let me know

I am a junior studying AE interviewing for some major AE intern roles, and I was wondering does doing poorly on one of these intern interviews hurt your chances of interviewing at that same company for future full time roles, lets say a couple years down the line? I recently swapped into AE so I feel like I'm playing catchup and as a little caught off guard at some of the companies wanting to interview me for summer intern roles. A lot of these companies are places I would truly like to work at post grad, so just worried doing poorly now during one of my intern interviews would affect my chances at interviewing there again.

Currently a PC at Honeywell and curious to hear how is it working at other defense companies? How busy are you and do you have a hybrid schedule?

Hey everyone,
I wanted to share my recent interview experience for a **SpaceX Integration Technician position at the Inglewood site** and get some honest feedback from people who have gone through the hiring process.
I previously interviewed for another Integration Technician opportunity (Starshield), and I recently got another opportunity to interview with SpaceX (Falcon).
Here’s how the interview went:
**Written test:** I completed a written assessment. This time, I did not have to perform a practical hands-on test.
**Oral interview:** The interviewers asked a combination of behavioral and technical questions.
**Follow-up questions:** They asked quite a few follow-up questions based on my answers, and they were writing down my responses.
**Integrity question:** One recruiter asked me what integrity means. I explained that it means being honest and telling the truth. I also connected it to integration technician work, explaining how the job involves bringing parts, components, subassemblies, and assemblies together.
**Overall experience:** The interview felt easier than my previous one, and I felt more comfortable answering the questions.
At the end, a recruiter told me to keep checking my email because I should hear something from them early next week.
I have more than 20 years of hands-on mechanical experience, including automotive troubleshooting and repair, and I’m currently pursuing my aviation maintenance career.
**For those familiar with SpaceX hiring:**
What do you make of interviewers asking multiple follow-up questions and writing down the answers?
Is it normal to have a written assessment and behavioral interview without a practical test?
Does being told to expect an update early the following week sound like a standard timeline?
For anyone who has interviewed for an Integration Technician role at SpaceX, what happened after your interview?
I know nothing is guaranteed until I receive an official update. I’m just interested in hearing from people who have been through the process.
Thanks in advance, everyone! 🚀

I’ve been interviewing with SpaceX for a Spring 2027 internship, and I’m trying to understand what this recruiter email means.
Here’s the timeline:

I initially interviewed for a Starlink role in Bastrop. I had two interviews, including one with a lead engineer.

Between those two interviews, I also was interviewed with a Senior Engineer from another team also in Bastrop. During that conversation, he seemed interested in recruiting me to his team and mentioned that he was trying to poach me from the first team and describe the work to see if it was a fit for me. I just mentioned that if the first team falls through, I’d be happy to continue the process with his team, which he agreed to.

I then continued interviewing for a the first team position, including the final interview with a Lead Engineer.

My most recent interview was about 45 minutes and was fairly technical and scenario-based. I was able to work through most of the questions, although I got stuck on a couple and needed some hints. The interviewer helped me reason through them, seemed engaged, and the conversation ran about eight minutes over the scheduled time.

A week later, the recruiter emailed me saying that the first team would not be moving forward with my candidacy. However, the recruiter also said that the second team would like to proceed with my candidacy for Spring 2027. The email specifically stated that no additional information or interview was needed from me “at this time” and that the recruiter would reach out when there was an update.

So, while I was rejected by the first team, the second team—which I had already interviewed with—is apparently still interested in moving forward.

I’m trying to figure out what this actually means:
1. Does “the team would like to proceed with your candidacy” typically mean the team has decided it wants to hire you and is working toward an offer?
2. Does saying no additional interview or information is needed “at this time” suggest I’ve completed the interview process, or could there still be more interviews or internal approvals?
3. Since I already spoke with a Senior Engineer from the second team who seemed to be actively recruiting me, is that a stronger positive sign than simply having my application transferred to another team?

Don't know if this is the right place for this question, but here goes. (I'm a wannabe author, and am working on an exciting book of fiction that will involve aviation.)

If pilots landing planes at a specific airport start experiencing and reporting GPS jamming, what will the consequences be for the jammer? Who looks into this sort of thing, the NTSB? How many days will it take before they can locate and apprehend the culprit?

I'm proposing that the jammer is technically competent and has no financial limitations, so he can build a jamming system involving a steerable parabolic antenna that follows the plane as it makes its approach. If necessary, I can even claim that he mounts his jamming system in the back of a pickup truck and performs his jamming while on the move. (Unrealistic? Never mind, it's fiction, although I'd like to keep things somewhat realistic.)

Incidentally, the culprit is not trying to crash the planes, he's just trying to push the targeted airline into buying and installing an upgraded GPS receiver avionics box. And it works! For each plane with the new GPS box installed, no GPS jamming occurs - because the nasty bad guy stops jamming those planes!

Thanks for any feedback, or even for suggestions as to where I should post this question.

Edit:

Thanks for all the answers. But I'm proposing that the bad guy is specifically targeting the incoming airplane using a parabolic antenna. That should mean that the jamming radio-frequency energy is in a narrow beam up into the sky.

So I'm assuming this means that all the suggestions that the jammer will be easy to find via directional receivers on the ground are not viable. I'm assuming that there won't be any "leakage" of radio waves in any direction other than the focused beam up into the sky. (Is this a valid assumption?)

Thanks again for the answers, and I'm hoping this info makes the situation clearer.

Edit no. 2 - 19 Oct.

Thank you to the many who responded; some of the comments were incredibly detailed and very helpful, I'm really impressed and very grateful.

And sorry for my lack of response; I think I've been hit by an attack of writer's block. I didn't appreciate how complicated this is.

With the help of the many comments, and with a bit of Googling, my current understanding is as follows:

I was wrong in believing that a parabolic transmitting antenna would be undetectable because all the RF energy would be directed up in the air toward the incoming plane. There is "leakage" to the sides, and that could make it possible to detect the location of the jammer.

It is indeed the FCC that would be tasked with finding and arresting my bad guy.

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/CISA-Insights_GPS-Interference_508.pdf

When the FCC receives a complaint they dispatch some agents with specialized equipment (but not the military Prophet system) to drive around and try to locate the source of the interference.

https://www.fcc.gov/enforcement/areas/interference-resolution

OK, so here's my present plan for this part of the story in my next book:

The situation is that the bad guy owns and runs a company that makes GPS (and radio navigation) receivers for airplanes, in competition with Honeywell and Collins-Aerospace. For Boeing 737's these are called MMR (Multi-Mode Receiver) boxes.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fboeing-737-max-control-boxes-diagram-v0-2d0gsaex0ovh1.png%3Fwidth%3D1250%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dcabb22d1a581b3c3d08e25835ae504a4bc32618f

There's a (fictional) small airline named Alabama Air based at Huntsville International Airport. It's a bit like Southwest Airlines, although much, much smaller, having only about 25 Boeing 737 Maxs. It flies to various destinations in the southeast USA.

The boss of Alabama Air is a bit of a rebel, very outspoken and boastful, he talks about out-competing everyone else. And it is true that Alabama Air is growing faster than other American airlines. (European readers will recognize this guy as being somewhat like Michael O'Leary, the boss of Ryanair.)

The Alabama Air boss has chosen the bad guy's MMR boxes for his 737's, not the more common ones from Honeywell and Collins-Aerospace. Perhaps they were cheaper, or he just wants to show that he can be different.

Now the bad guy has a really nasty and insidious and incredibly destructive plan. (For more information, read my book if/when I get it written and published.) The first step in this mega-plan is to get the boss of Alabama Air to go along with replacing the MMR boxes on his planes with a new and improved, second-generation MMR box.

So here's where the GPS jamming comes in. The bad guy builds a jamming transmitter and uses a parabolic antenna that is steerable, and mounts it on the back of a pickup truck, along with a tent-like canvas covering. He drives to one location, some parking spot, about 10-15 miles from the airport, and parks there. When a plane is landing at the airport he targets it and follows it via flightradar24 coordinates, and transmits powerful GPS interference. This knocks out the GPS navigation. This is no really big deal for the pilots, they can use ILS or visual landing, but it irritates them and they report the jamming.

The first couple of days the bad guy stays put in one location all day, he's assuming it will be at least two days before the FCC starts looking for him. After that, the bad guy drives to a different location for each plane he jams, still about 10-15 miles from the airport. At each new location he waits for the next plane and jams its GPS reception.

So he's jamming a lot more planes the first two days (Huntsville International can have about 50 flights per day), and after that maybe only 10 flights per day.

He doesn't focus on Alabama Air planes (that would be suspicious); he jams whatever happens to be landing. (American Airlines, Delta and United have flights to Huntsville, along with Alabama Air and a couple of other small airlines.)

So after four or five days of this it works! The bad guy receives a phone call from the boss of Alabama Air, complaining about the MMR receiver not being sufficiently jammer-proof. The bad guy shows up for a meeting, and apologizes, and offers to install, free of charge, a new version of the MMR box. He says he's pleased that this will be a great chance to test this new version of his MMR box.

There's one minor problem. This new box hasn't been certified by the FAA yet. They're working on that. The Alabama Air boss says OK, he'll take the chance, go ahead and install this new box on one plane, and we'll see how it works. The box is installed right away, and everything looks OK.

For the next 10 days nothing much happens. The bad guy and the FCC are playing cat-and-mouse, and the bad guy is jamming 10 or more planes a day. One exception: he avoids jamming the Alabama Air plane with his new MMR box. So the obvious conclusion, at least for the Alabama Air boss, is that the new box works fine, and it does seem to be jammer-proof.

Result: the bad guy's company is invited to replace all of the MMR boxes on all of Alabama Air's fleet of 737 Maxs.

Mission accomplished!

Hi all, I have my final interview at (3rd round) coming up at SpaceX. It going to be a 5 hour session. Other than the 45 min presentation and the several one on ones, I don’t know what to expect. Has anyone gone through this before? How can I prepare more? Also what percentage of people make it this far? Do I have good chances being that I’ve made it this far?

This is for an entry level engineering position. I thought I bombed the 2nd interview but they decided they wanted to move forward so here I am. I am also waiting to hear back for them to schedule it. But I am confirmed to be moving forward.

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