SpaceX Propulsion Development Engineer reviews

Long hours, sink or swim type of environment, traffic getting there is terrible.

No work life balance. Elon is a toxic leader. If you fall below 52hrs/week at SpaceX you won’t be there long. Often working 6 days a week and we’ve had a schedule change roughly once every month and a half. They continue to cut perks and become like a large corporate entity. For example, one of the buildings used to have hot food and a coffee bar and they got rid of that. It takes too long to get to the main building on your lunch so it probably won’t be a reasonable option. Food truck schedules have been cut on certain days at another building and replaced with an inferior program. To go to the bathroom you have to clock into a “General” work order which reduces your “utilization.” They want a “utilization” of 85% which is difficult to do if you use the bathroom a couple times when you’re spending 75% of your waking hours here and if you have to physically find work in the department (work isn’t brought to you).