SpaceX reviews

-Engineering managers are typically equivalent to lead or senior engineers at other companies, highly technical but not so good at the leadership side of things. This often results in micro-management of direct reports instead of supporting them in their efforts. -The company as a whole is comically bad at scheduling. Projects that in reality had plenty of time to be done right have corners cut in order to meet unrealistic deadlines.

One of the big "cons" that people talk about is difficulty with work-life balance. It can be a problem, especially if you have a big deadline coming up. Some people seem to be here 24/7. But the focus is on getting things done rather than spending a lot of time at work. I get everything I need to do done without needing to be at my desk 16 hours a day, and leave when I feel like it. It is easy to feel like you must appear to be working all the time, but it is up to you not to get sucked into that. Perhaps I might feel differently after a longer period working here, but at the moment I am maintaining a routine that I know I will be able to sustain long-term and which gives me enough time away from work to keep me excited about what I do. I also feel that sometimes there is inconsistency across different groups in the company as to how they document work. This is sometimes frustrating to me as I need to work with a number of different people and cannot always find their documentation. However, that is a fairly minor annoyance and the introduction of some new systems is starting to help.