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Would like to hear some others stories or info, I’m an 11B being medically discharged, my most recent time I’ve been a drone operator, work wise it’s been the best. Most satisfying job I’ve ever worked finally found a field I want to work In that passionate about. Most of my time been spent flying ghost X I applied for their skill bridge. I would still like to be an operator on civilian side or possible field tech. What are some classes, certs anything possible to help increase my odds of getting job with anduril, I don’t have a degree as I never knew what I wanted to pursue. With a job here in mind what would be a degree worth pursuing. Thanks im advance for any info

Just wondering what y’all’s experience with this is. Super nervous right now. Thank you so much!

Edit: Got the verbal offer! Don’t give up y’all!

Edit: Got the offer letter!

Got an offer but don’t know how to negotiate RSU since this is my first time. What is the range for a new grad?

I currently work as an Electrical Engineer in R&D at a defense contractor. For anyone who has made the jump from a defense contractor to Anduril, I’m wondering how work load compared between the two. Is it comparable?

Well, I've just finished loading my 26 foot uhaul, my entire body hurts.

Driving to costa mesa to my new apartment. My wife and son in another vehicle following me. Hopefully uprooting my entire life for Anduril was the right choice.

Only time will tell

Hello everyone,

A few weeks ago I had my final round interviews for a SWE role at Aresnal-1, while I was preparing I was on this subreddit looking around a ton, so I figured I would do a small write up to give back some of what I learned, it isn't really new information if you have been plugged in for a while.

Overall the interview process went pretty smoothly, though some of the scheduling was a bit tedious and slower than I would have expected.

I applied for the role and did not hear back for months (2 or 3) until one day I received a phone call from a recruiter. This was actually a much shorter recruiter call than I am used to, just asking generally if I was familiar with Anduril and their mission, if I was interested in the location, and if the salary range was adequate. I didn't have any conversation about my skills, their stack, or even the role really on this call. But I was offered to take a technical round.

I was sent an email to schedule a technical round interview. This was pretty much exactly what people say they are on here, a leetcode style question on something graph related. The initial prompt was a bit undefined, so I needed to ask clarifying questions, and then the interviewer made the problem progressively more difficult. Technical interviewer was super nice, we had a good conversation about DSA and tech at the end as well. I felt okay but not great on my performance. A few hours later I got an email asking me to put in availability for another interview round.

The next round that I scheduled for was with a Hiring Manager. This conversation was pretty fun, we discussed different projects I have worked on in the past, and he just kept probing asking deeper and deeper questions about different design choices and trade-offs. Mostly questions that you would only really be able to answer from experience, not so much cramming. He asked a few questions about interpersonal skills as well, but it generally felt like a fairly natural conversation. I came away again feeling like I did okay, but not that I knocked it out of the park. After this interview I didn't hear back for two or three weeks, but I sent a few chaser emails regardless. I eventually was told that they were interested in a final round interviews.

Final round interviews for this particular role was a virtual super-day essentially with four mini interviews much like other people have reported. Two technical and two more behavioral. As I was prepping I kind of mentally categorized them as:

• Ability to work with others productively (stakeholders, team mates, non-engineers)
• Leetcode
• System Design
• Vibe check

And honestly that is kind of how they felt.

The ability to work with others questions were very much questions about how you do when you need to interface with non-engineers. Are you able to communicate clearly, do you have experience doing things like that. This felt very natural to me and went pretty well. As you see on this subreddit over and over, I was asked the "Why Anduril?" questions, but generally I tried to have already answered any questions like that in my initial "pitch" so we could talk about more interesting things.

The Leetcode style question was actually a bit more involved than the initial technical recruiter, it was a more real work style scenario, that had a Leetcode aspect to it. I tripped up pretty badly even though it should not have been too difficult. Realistically, practicing your Leetcode and just staying calm would have cleared it pretty smoothly but I hadn't interviewed in a while.

System design I feel like I did okay on, but I just don't think I prepared enough. I think that the Hello Interview YouTube videos helped a ton, but you never really know what kind of system they are going to ask you about. I was asked about a system that I don't have as much experience on and though I was able to get a rough shape, this is one of the interviews I would assume I didn't do as well on. For people practicing. I would practice drawing out the shape that you think of when creating a system and honestly go for breadth when practicing for these.

The final Vibes round was super chill, it felt like a breath of fresh air after working through the technicals for ~ two hours. There were a few questions about previous projects and working scenarios, and a bunch of time to ask questions about Anduril, their stack, and how they work.

It took about a week for them to get back to me with a decision, I bothered them once or twice since I was a bit antsy, and I was ultimately rejected. Overall though, other than the recruiters (who are swamped) the interview process was pretty smooth, everyone was super nice, and I honestly should have been able to crack it. The annoying thing is that it was six interviews over the course of weeks, multiple days off work for a rejection, but alas.

I know I was on here throughout the process looking for any scraps of information, so I figured I would share the vague shape that my interviews went in. I think that the Anduril tagged Leetcode questions were helpful for me through the process, and the free Hello Interview Youtube videos were helpful for me to have a general shape of what a system design interview looks like nowadays. As for the other things I just tried to think of projects and parts of projects that I had a lot of ownership of so I could feel confident when talking about them.

Hope this helps calm somebody down before they interview, good luck!

Apologies if this has been previously but I couldn’t find a similar post reading through the sub.

I had an initial screening interview/phone call for a Senior Systems Engineer position. The recruiter said that the second round would be a 45-60 minute conversation with two or three of the team members and hiring manager, all done separately. The third round would be the same but with a four or five person tech panel. All in, he said it would be roughly 8 or 9 interviews, each about 45 minutes to an hour long.

Is this normal at Anduril? It seems excessive. Why are the rounds not a single meeting with all relevant parties? I am currently employed with another DoD prime and heading into business travel, so scheduling that many interviews will take several weeks. I’ve had complex interview processes before but nothing like this. Or is this just how it’s done now?

I came here expecting balls to the wall, get shit done type of schedule. I’ve found the complete opposite. Things move slow. Designs are slow to mature, parts are slow to arrive, and once everything is lined up, builds don’t take that long. The assemblies are simple, as they should be for something that is supposed to be cheap and affordable.

Maybe I just need to adjust expectations, I just expecting to be much busier.

I recently got hired on as Composite Tech @ the Morrisville Plant. Could someone give me a brief day to day of the culture at this facility?

I see a lot here and on other subs about anduril being a high pressure environment and people working 60 hour weeks / having no life etc... it dosent exactly seem appealing it also sounds unrealistic as places like that tend not to keep talent unless they are paying extremely high. ( I know they pay high, but not any more than any other faang role)

But I already work in a high pressure tech role in a big tech company, its mostly 9-5 but not uncommon to spend extra time working a bit on weekends or late nights with overseas teams, i'm mostly used to it because my whole career has been this way.

So I guess my question is when you hear about people saying anduril is high pressure is that because they are coming from a prime where things are a bit more cushy vs expectations in regular big tech.. or is it genuinely a high pressure place ?

Been applying for a while done phone interviews, in -person, and ghosted, how does someone get hired into Anduril ? Any help.

Interviewing for a Manufacturing Engineer position at Arsenal-1 and wondered if anyone knew the work schedule expectations and if there is OT?

Hello, I’m currently interviewing to be a Flight Test Operator.

I was curious on if any of you currently are (or have been, or are in a similar position) a Flight Test Operator. Hoping to learn a bit more about what is expected of you, WLB during it, what the “long term vision” is for it in the future etc.

Curious if the WLB is the same as engineers, I was told expect 8-10 hours of overtime per week, how realistic is this is it much more, less, or pretty fair?

I see the job also isn’t salaried and it’s per hour - does that mean they expect this to be a short term role or is there some precedent / expectation that this could be a much longer term job (ideally, where would it lead to as well)

Thanks for your information if you have any!

Also, is this an “unlimited PTO” position or what does vacation time look like for this role? I didn’t see anything listed

I’ve gotten two interviews at Anduril. One ended after 3 rounds the other ended after the recruiter call.

What’s the best way to break into this company

Hi!

I start on 8/24 in HQ and I saw that in my onboarding stuff that anduril would cover travel(hotel/etc) during onboarding. The appt I was planning to move into is available starting 9/5 so I was planning to live from a hotel for those two weeks before I moved. For the anduril covered travel do people only book for the two days that is onboarding or could I get away with booking a hotel for the full week/etc so I have less coming out of pocket for the hotel i will stay in for 2 weeks. (I asked my onboarding person and they were not very clear on it so wanted to double check)!

Thanks!

For those that work at Anduril, how casual is it really? Have my first day coming up and they say jeans or shorts are fine. Are shorts really ok? Is HQ cold?

Is there any time / positions that you shouldn’t? Say meeting with a costumer or being a senior IC or manager?

For those that applied for the 2027 Early Career Roles, have any of you guys heard back yet? I know august was their timeline for starting to review apps.

For those that applied for the 2027 Early Career Roles, have any of you guys heard back yet? I know august was their timeline for starting to review apps.

Does anyone work in the Reston Virginia office and can tell me what it is like. Is it similar to headquarters with the ambiance and the food provided or way different?