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Firefly Aerospace reviews

3.2

51% would recommend to a friend

(143 total reviews)

Jason Kim

49% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Firefly Aerospace has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 143 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Firefly Aerospace employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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143 reviews
2.0
Nov 5, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You'll learn a lot from the multitude of projects going on right now. You'll have some good colleagues if you're in the right team (engineering wise). Insurance plans are pretty good.

Cons

Hard to build faith given the CEO turnover. 3 primary CEOs in the last 5 years? ...says a lot. The test site is toxic and runs rampant with sexism and bigotry at the tech level (to be expected of TX?). The Cedar Park offices are better...spacecraft building is a pressure cooker though and suffers from turnover and additional toxicity from leadership. You'll be underpaid for the amount of work you'll be responsible for when comparing the roles across the industry. They claim they did an extensive study on total compensation around the industry, but then never released the results and said they were "in the ballpark"....

1.0
Sep 18, 2024

They are falling apart from the ground up

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Gain a lot of work experience very quickly. One year at FF is equivalent to 3-5 years anywhere else. Ground level employees are dedicated and great to work with.

Cons

No work life balance. Management has huge egos and will not listen to critique or reason. Managers lie for their own personal gain or to save themselves from mistakes due to poor management. They will intentionally burn you out. Their goal is to have a good engineer and work them to the ground. Management doesn’t listen to feedback. Management creates policy that they themselves don’t follow. They can’t consistently build a vehicle. Knowledge is not passed down because turnover rate is extremely high. The company is falling apart from the ground up. Zero career growth opportunities. They are trying too hard to be SpaceX but only bringing over the bad. Good boys club, managers promote each other and not the workers and engineers doing the work on the ground. They have money problems that they don’t share with employees.

1.0
Jun 14, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Was able to contribute to a pretty amazing project with great and hardworking colleagues

Cons

Employee's are over-encumbered with tasks at the start of every sprint, failure to fulfill the duties (which almost always involves >40 hours of work per week) led to my unexpected termination. This company obviously only wants workaholics so if that's your idea of a good time you'll be a great fit. If you value your independence and a reasonable work/life balance then stay far far away!

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