13 tough interview questions you may have to answer if you want to intern at SpaceX this summer

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Elon Musk, the CEO and CTO of SpaceX.

Forget about fetching coffee - as an intern at SpaceX, you'll help design, build, and launch rockets that could potentially take humans to Mars.

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So it follows that you're going to have to answer some tough interview questions to get the gig.

Each year, more than 700 interns join SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, for 80-hour workweeks at about $22 an hour in departments like avionics, dynamics, launch operations, manufacturing, and enterprise information systems.

The hiring process typically consists of two in-depth phone interviews, during which intern candidates have to answer questions like the following, which we found on Glassdoor: