Relativity Space reviews

Growing pains of any startup maturing into a company.

The company was at its height (culturally) about a year ago, before the COVID-19 pandemic caused some internal scrambles. Relativity has attracted a lot of great talent from competitors by highlighting the work/life balance and shying away from the infamous SpaceX culture, but recently it feels the company is moving more and more towards that. The company also boasts about its 4 values, one of which is Humankind, but there has been a lack of that recently. The turnover rate has risen in the last few months, with people leaving voluntarily (a lot of super early employees left and those who have been around for over a year), and people who got let go without prior performance feedback. Employees are shocked to hear they're being let go. These employees either didn't receive any performance feedback or were misled thinking they were meeting expectations. It doesn't seem like managers and their soon-to-be-fired direct reports are on the same page. What ever happened to performance improvement plans?