Going Downhill - Spacecraft Subsystem Engineer SES Employee Review

3.0
Jul 23, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

European benefits Work Life Balance Good Coworkers Pay is reasonable bad considering the typical workload once on-call pay and bonus is added

Cons

US employees are forgotten, all decisions are made by Luxembourg. I can count on one hand the number of times I have seen my manager in person. Bad and dangerous software usage practices Office is dead.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Chill work, good for starters and resume. People are nice.

Cons

Not much structure, can have more guidance

2.0
Jun 29, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Still employed through many rounds of layoffs. Many options to learn with continuous technology changes. Opportunities to do other people's work for them. Opportunity for government bail out in the form of 5G spectrum sale.

Cons

The only employment opportunities are in India. Starting to tip the scales of diversity one direction. Employees are a number to the CEO. He only cares about himself and his bonus. There is no direction from upper management making lower management make decisions without properly validating integration with other stakeholders. No budget to integrate networks between legacy companies. It appears as though SES will hobble on the remaining infrastructure and employees until the next merger/buyout.

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