By testing your familiarity and knowledge of the company, they hope to assess your determination to compete for this position. While preparing for your interview, extend your research beyond their website and read up on everything anyone is saying about the company. Additionally, revise your mission statement in a way that complements theirs to showcase how you would make a valuable addition to their teams.

By examining the mission statements on the SpaceX website, along with other sources, you can see their priorities and values include commitment, innovation, reusability, sustainability, and creativity. But comb through their mission statement and key phrases and determine how your priorities align with theirs. A few of their key phrases are, 'Make an impact,' 'Making history,' 'Reducing cost,' 'Becoming the first,' and 'Increasing access.'

"SpaceX mission statement is to make history by being the first to bring space tourism to a reality. By increasing access and reducing cost space tourism will become a standard for life."

"SpaceX is committed to making space travel something normal. This is accomplished through expanding our capability to explore space and also to reduce the cost of space travel overall so that it can be more obtainable by average people."