SpaceX reviews

3.8

67% would recommend to a friend

(2,744 total reviews)
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Elon Musk

76% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

SpaceX has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,744 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SpaceX 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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3K reviews
5.0
Jul 7, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Cutting edge of rocket development Lots of passionate people Huge growth opportunity for talented and dedicated people Site is improving constantly

Cons

Long hours Road conditions to work are horrendous

4.0
Jul 5, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

-very motivated staff -food is provided -trauma bonding -it is easy to figure out who is responsible for what -documentation is very easy to look through -improving the process is encouraged -management helps with blockers -meeting are short

Cons

-you are disposable -you work 50+ hours a week -trauma (stress dreams are common) -you will have to triage between on your responsibilities (that are all on fire lol) -excessive documentation is has to be created to do work -It can take an act of congress to make a simple change -management set overly aggressive goals they wonders why there is burn out

5.0
Jul 4, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

What you work on improves the world. Because you're tasked with doing something that hasn't been done before, you're constantly bumping into problems that you're the first human or group of humans to encounter. You get to work with the world's most talented people. Despite (or perhaps because of) the extremely high expectations everyone operates under, conflict is almost entirely related to technical issues. Very little interpersonal drama. People are understanding if you hit your limit because they can relate, and there's a strong culture of comradery. To a person, everyone is competent and dependable. You'll essentially never find yourself avoiding or going around a colleague because you anticipate they'll be unresponsive. You're constantly learning new technical skills, but you also learn a lot about yourself at the same time. Very little bureaucratic red tape, if you've got an area you can contribute, management will not get in your way of pursuing it. Advancement is quick if you're talented and driven. The company is managing scaling very well, and I'm a firm believer that it's most impressive accomplishments have yet to occur. My contributions here are one of the things I'm most proud of in my life, which is a feeling you won't get from most jobs.

Cons

Very demanding and intense. A place where you need to be very deliberate about what you want out of your work/life balance. Unless you're superhuman, burnout is inevitable. You need to be able to consciously monitor your own burnout. The constant threat of an embarrassing Elon tweet/story (I never saw any of these attitudes trickle down to my department, and I would not have tolerated them on my team. I firmly believe my experience would hold across the organization as a whole). Remote and work from home policies are unnecessarily strict. Minor thing, but the company can be weirdly cheap about little things sometimes.

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