CesiumAstro reviews

3.0

41% would recommend to a friend

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Shey Sabripour

49% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

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1.0
Dec 18, 2025

Failing Start Up, Fake Company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free Lunch on Thursdays. Amazing coworkers but they never last long.

Cons

8 years and still a start up, more like 96 month old toddler. Boys club environment based off brown nosing and yes man followers. Extremely political, gossipy, and incompetent management. Secret meeting within leadership and favored employees. Means girls group unfriendly to all new women hires. No communication from management to their teams. Very top heavy with an over abundance of managers. Excessive amount of approvals for everything. No team building in any department whatsoever. Management refuses to learn from past failures. Inventory is so poorly managed every build has shortages. Takes months to receive items purchased even after approvals. Company cannot face issues. Doomed to keep repeating the cycle. Burnout culture with no incentive to do extra. Not flexible compared to other start ups. Mass walks out due to incompetent management and nepotism. No hybrid or work from home options. Extremely high turnover. No structure or systems in place whatsoever. No competent debug team. No root cause analysis. Toxic culture of firing people on the spot without warning. Company doesn't believe in hardware designed for manufacturing. No product ever delivered on time. There are a ton of early employees considered untouchable and protected. These people are incompetent with little to no experience outside this company. They are allowed to run rampart and have control of EVERY department. Many people have been let go for challenging them or trying to fix the destruction they create. Company focuses solemnly on marketing and product design without quality, repeatability, or cost in mind. Constantly creating new products to keep the illusion going without ever addressing issues or delivering any hardware.

4.0
May 21, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Interesting work - Good team - Friendly culture (in Colorado)

Cons

- Purchasing can take a while to procure your orders (this has improved) - Poor program management resulting in engineers working overtime to try to bring in unrealistic schedules (this does not go well) - Lack of communication on certain teams causes misaligned expectations and frustration - Not very competitive PTO benefits (start with 15 days, after 2 years go up to 20 days per year) - Company does not deposit its 401k contributions until your 2 year mark

4.0
Jun 1, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Definitely NOT a crazy startup environment (series B is in the books and the company has been around for five+ years). Good HR support. Coworkers are smart and work fast (they carry their weight). Parking is easy. Lots of opportunities for social events outside of work. Lunch is provided weekly. Plenty of room to do things "your way." Management is receptive to suggestions. Salary is competitive.

Cons

Wish there were more salad/clean eating options at Thursday lunches. If you are looking for abundant structure or micromanagement, a FAANG may be a better fit. Low-wall cube environment can be a challenge. Business casual dress is required.

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