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

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).

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262 reviews
5.0
Jun 5, 2019

The place to be if you are at the top of your game.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Engineering that is challenging, projects that are very cool, great people who care and a rocket that actually flys!

Cons

Typical growing pains of a fast scaling company.

3.0
May 16, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The work is always interesting and it’s a place where young engineers develop skills quickly.

Cons

- Nobody takes sick leave ever due to the imaginative deadlines from management. There are always many people in the office getting everyone sick. - Payrises this year were terrible, many staff got less than inflation even in such a successful year for us.

1.0
Sep 25, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I think the company is heading in the right as it slowly transitions into an organisation that values its employees.

Cons

The company is still very young in regards to process. I have worked at 4 companies which are aerospace and this was the worst to work at. it wasn't that the hours were long. It was that employees were expected to put the rocket before everything. So unrealistic timelines were further exaggerated by things going wrong. HR didn't really do anything and the team leads just tried to keep the CEO off their back for another week. Being pre-revenue the salaries were not competitive and the likelihood of a payrise even less likely. Furthermore you couldn't just stop and have a chat without the CEO looking at you like you were the reason they had to raise more money. We were also told that if anything we designed or tested was wrong we would be sacked, such was the pressure the company was under to achieve success.

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