SpaceX reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(2,742 total reviews)
avatar

Elon Musk

74% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

SpaceX has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,742 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).

Reviews by job title

3K reviews
5.0
Jan 9, 2020

A place to make history

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get to be apart of history every day. If your willing to work hard, be a team player, and forget about the box, you can be apart of amazing things.

Cons

Long hours. watching what you eat. did I say long hours.

4.0
Sep 2, 2019

Making waves, but at what cost?

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There is never a shortage of interesting hardware projects. Involvement in and impact on projects is more a function of your ambition and less a function of your time at SpaceX or any other experience, making it a great place for recent graduates to grow as engineers. The president is great; in particular she excels at managing difficult people and situations. The CEO has strong vision and harshly scrutinizes important company decisions.

Cons

The expectation of low-level design engineers has ballooned with time and is currently at an absurd level. Low-level engineers are almost always held responsible for mistakes that middle managers should have prevented. Your performance is judged without consideration of outside factors; team building is largely nonexistent. If SpaceX was a football team, they'd assign the quarterback as a receiver and fire them when they consistently dropped the ball. There are tracks for management and technical expertise, but there is not any support for growth in technical areas. Learning is assumed to be a self-motivated activity that occurs in your own time. The CEO is difficult to work with and seems unable or unwilling to change.

3.0
Jul 29, 2019

Dream Job Can be diminished

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Always moving forward. Casual working environment Strong supporting PRIDE

Cons

Cool Stuffs but getting boring - Long hours but less rewards (not like it used to be) Future is belong to CEO Twitters’

Viewing 184 - 186 of 2,742 Reviews

Glassdoor has 3,678 SpaceX reviews submitted anonymously by SpaceX employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if SpaceX is right for you.