Open Cosmos Mission Concept Engineer interview questions
based on 3 ratings - Updated Dec 24, 2025
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Mission Concept Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Open Cosmos with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 41.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Mission Concept Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Open Cosmos overall takes an average of 36 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Open Cosmos as a Mission Concept Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 33%
Skills test: 33%
Group panel interview: 33%
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They called me for the first interview, rescheduled last minute. At the end they told me they would let me know and then never contacted me again or ansered any of my emails.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Expected salary, where do you want to work, do you have any experience writing professional documents etc.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Open Cosmos
Interview
Three stages of interviews. Technical, HR and a challenge project that covers the design of a potential CubeSat mission. HR interview is standard interview questions and the technical covers various satellite mission concepts
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Open Cosmos (Harwell, South East England, England)
Interview
3 interviews, long delay.
First is technical second HR third is a whole project (obviously not paid..).
As for the interviews:
First is literal exercices on a power point for 1 hour
Second is classic hr, the hr was quite rude
Third is them inquiring about the project you made while giving you 0 feedback. They also again give you exercices on a powerpoint.
The whole thing was strenous long and unnecessary all for the measly salary of 28-33k annual tops. Not only that the project reauires at least 2 days worth of work and they end up not bothering to give any serious feedback.
After everything was done I even had to force them to give me an answer. Wouldn't recommend, plenty of other companies with better pay.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give us a cubesat that can achieve x resolution. Plot the evolution of resolution as a function of altitude.