SpaceX reviews

Bro culture (while not everywhere) is certainly bred within the company, which can be very toxic. HR really has no power over employees especially if you're an intern or have not been employed as a full timer for years. As a female, I would sometimes get unprofessional attention from male techs which was generally uncomfortable. Some managers are great, but some just aren't a good fit for the role, and if you get stuck with the latter, you're screwed as an intern. Some managing/mentoring individuals can either be the most amazing people you've ever met, OR very type A or can be rude which can really erode an association with the team especially amongst interns (unfortunately HR cares to do nothing about this common issue) The company has also on numerous occasions punished people for speaking out as whistleblowers, which this past summer got multiple people fired and the issues they wrote about in the open letter were never addressed to employees. There is also a huge burn out culture here. This reminds you that you are expendable. Hundreds of very smart engineers could easily take over your role once the life is sucked out of you after working 12-14 hour days for months on end to meet ridiculously tight ("spicy") deadlines that with better upper management might potentially be slightly mitigated.

Dismal pay (you will have to take a pay cut to work here). Only promote lazy millennials engineers who don't show up until 10 or 11 am. Leadership incognizance causes chaos and more negative work than anything resulting in enormous amounts of wasted time and money. Raises are basically non existent. No one looks at the whole picture, they only care about thier little piece of the pie with no regard as to what effect it will have on other work required on the project at a later date. They spend more time trying not to offend someone than holding them accountable for doing their jobs.