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      Rocket Lab

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      Rocket Lab reviews

      3.6

      68% would recommend to a friend

      (262 total reviews)
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      Peter Beck

      95% approve of CEO

      74% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Rocket Lab has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 262 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Rocket Lab employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

      Reviews by job title

      262 reviews
      4.0
      Mar 10, 2020

      Friendly, smart coworkers. Long but rewarding hours.

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      -Work on rockets. -Coworkers and management are friendly. -Everyone is willing to help. -Good perks. -Challenging and rewarding work.

      Cons

      -Pay is engineering industry standard for a workforce that is well above standard. -No overtime for salary workers -Company is in transition from a startup to a large company which means a lot of systems and procedures are archaic.

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      Rocket Lab Response
      6y
      Hi there, Thank you for your thoughts! We're so happy to hear you're enjoying your time working at Rocket Lab, and that you find your colleagues and managers friendly and like working alongside them. We appreciate the feedback regarding salary – we would definitely say our people are superstars! We do have a number of people who come over from overseas where wage and conditions are different, however we have had our remuneration bench-marked and we are on par with our local markets. We also currently have an overtime clause for salaried workers if they have worked at the weekend, and we encourage that if weekday overtime is a regular occurrence, you discuss your workload with your manager or P&C so that we can look at the distribution of work. In relation to processes, we have put a lot of time into this over the past 6 months and we hope you can see a real benefit in relation to more structure and formalisation. But we are ever-evolving and are still working on this one day to day. Thanks again for the feedback and for all your hard work! -Rocket Lab People and Culture
      5.0
      Nov 11, 2019

      Fantastic Company

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Great career advancement opportunities. Intelligent, like minded individuals all focused on one goal. Ability to be rewarded in shares. Clean environment with world class facilities

      Cons

      Long hours Still in development phase.

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      Rocket Lab Response
      6y
      Hi there, Thank you for your review – we’re really happy to hear that you’re enjoying working at Rocket Lab! We have invested a lot of time and money into our facilities, including our gym and staff carpark building, so it’s fantastic to hear that those efforts don’t go unnoticed. Thank you for the advice to management as well – we're refining our structures and processes to ensure that we reach our build plan goals and and we’re really looking forward to the proud moment when we can build a rocket in a week! Thanks again for the feedback, we look forward to celebrating many more launches with you and the team in 2020. - Rocket Lab People and Culture
      5.0
      Nov 1, 2019

      And awesome company with an awesome team

      Software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      You get to work with some of the smartest people from many different engineering disciplines. I personally get to work with a great team of engineers and interact with lots of other awesome teams who are experts in their fields. You get to solve unique problems, the kinds of problems that we solve on a daily basis are not like what you’d find at other companies, they’re always different and often require creative solutions.

      Cons

      Rocket Lab is very much in the transition from start-up to an established manufacturing and engineering company. With this transition comes lots of change. So if you're looking for a position that's set in stone, where it's only ever maintenance and you don't usually need to come up with new ideas or solutions, then this might not be the company for you. But if you're looking for a place where you can stretch your arms a bit and really solve some awesome problems, here's the right place.

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      Rocket Lab Response
      6y
      Hi there, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review, we really appreciate it! We’re so glad to hear that you’re happy working here and that there are so many things you enjoy about your job. As you’ve said, we are transitioning from the start-up days where things would change by the minute, to an established leader in the global field of small-sat launch, and we acknowledge that there are upsides and downsides to this. The company’s innovative, adaptable ethos means that we can solve problems quickly and efficiently, and this has been a massive factor in why we’ve been able to have such great success so far. We love hearing that the challenge of doing so excites the incredible minds that we are lucky enough to have in the team! In terms of long term planning, we hope the recent all hands meeting, which shared our strategic goals for 2020 and beyond, highlighted just how much work is going into forward planning and communication. We look forward to working with you in 2020 to turn this strategy into a reality. - Rocket Lab People and Culture
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