Relativity Space reviews

3.3

49% would recommend to a friend

(22 total reviews)

Eric Schmidt

93% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

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2.0
Sep 24, 2024

Lost its way

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Pros

You can still find some pretty incredible people who work here. Lot's of friendly, hardworking, sharp engineers that get to work on really inspiring projects.

Cons

The company went on an irresponsible spending spree after the last fundraising round in 2022 where the company was significantly overvalued. The company is now living paycheck to paycheck as it struggles to raise more money to keep the lights on. With no product or revenue, investors are understandably worried about sinking in any more money. After the first flight of Terran 1, the company completely lost its way. It went from an innovative 3D printing company launching Terran-1 in record time, to a mediocre performance Terran-R that has no realistic launch date, or feasible way to ship from California to Florida. Even if Relativity could get their next rocket to the launch pad, it will hit a brick wall when Starship starts flying and Falcon 9 completely gobbles up any remaining launch customers. Executive leadership has no clue how to navigate out of this tailspin, and have been so far removed from the day to day operations that they wouldn't even know where to start. With no more innovation to their manufacturing after 3D printing was proven ineffective for the fuselage, there isn't a compelling reason to bet on Relativity Space. Most of the good engineers know this and have left the company.

2.0
Apr 24, 2024
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Pros

The pay is pretty good although merit raises were laughable. Smart coworkers, challenging work Learning stipend Option to work remotely on some days if needed

Cons

Work is challenging because they don't want to funnel funds into IT so everything is "cowboy style". High turnover paired with depending on one person as an expert on any given things (because again, can't add more people) means things fall completely apart when somebody leaves because nobody was cross trained on any body else's roles. Not as diverse as they claim. I have a hard time believing there are no qualified female candidates for IT or software roles. VERY political. The kind of place where the "little people" can't speak directly to somebody higher up and you have to be extra delicate when explaining things to them or they'll try to go over your heads even if the have a limited understanding of the problem. Higher ups try to use their position to influence other areas where they have no expertise without questioning it.

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