SpaceX reviews

3.8

67% would recommend to a friend

(521 total reviews)
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Elon Musk

74% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

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4.0
Aug 1, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Work is almost never boring. There's interesting stuff going on if you know where to look for it. Lots of opportunity for career advancement. SpaceX's reputation as a slave driving machine is largely overblown. Company's mission is pretty damn cool, plus you get to work on rockets and spaceships. Subsidized meals make eating pretty cheap. There's lots of options to choose from. The coffee is free and is, in my humble opinion, better than Starbucks.

Cons

Rampant elitism. There are some big egos at this company, and if you clash with them, it's quite unpleasant. This leads to a very noticeable clash between individuals and even departments. Uncle E's strategic vision for the company is largely at odds with the day to day operational demands, which makes day to day life challenging and sometimes stressful. The job could pay more (that's what the _equity_ is for, I suppose).

3.0
Jul 9, 2019

Not Great for Supply Chain

Recommend
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Pros

Cool Company Fast Paced Awesome Mission More Exciting than most places You Get Stock Health Care is Good

Cons

Your career will not progress here if you're in supply chain. Throw out all the skills and supply chain practices you've learned before and get ready to just expedite and adapt to last minute changes at all times. No need to be strategic or go outside the box, your only focus will be what is hot that day/week. Leadership doesn't care about employee growth as long as they keep getting their stock and salary. Extremely limited opportunity for growth, executive leadership is consistently getting rid of entry level leadership positions and absorbing them into management positions. They are now all quitting because of the stress and workload.

3.0
Jul 3, 2019

CnC programmer

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Pros

Fast pace culture and environment, motivating to learn fast and adapt. Forced you to take risk, be bold and be creative with your programs Health insurance Rocket launches

Cons

-Very young and inexperiences management. -Very toxic working environment Fingers pointing cultures vs. helping troubleshoot and investigate the problem. Management blames programmer for the processes. -401k not matching -Foods service is bad unless you work on main building. -Compensation is below average consider how much responsibility tasks was handed for programmer. -Work/life balance is very poor. -very little training provided, learn and adapted quickly or you will be out of the door -support from manager is non-existence. If you run into technical problems deal with it yourself. -HR and management are the same boat so be careful, whose yours complaints with. It could be backfires. -employees appreciation is nonexistent.

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