SpaceX reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(2,742 total reviews)
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Elon Musk

75% 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).

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3K reviews
4.0
Feb 22, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cool products, smart people, strong outlook

Cons

Long hours with very high expectations. Increasing prevalence of office politics as company grows.

5.0
Feb 21, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people, challenging problems, lots of growth opportunity

Cons

High intensity environment never lets up

3.0
Feb 20, 2025

Great Pros, and Big Cons

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- good pay - stock awards have the potential to really grow over time and become ultra valuable - never bored - opportunities to work on many different types of projects, always a challenge to learn from and overcome - working with extremely smart and motivated people

Cons

- long hours - absurd schedule expectations (I think they were supposed to be at Mars by now) - everything is a priority, meaning nothing is a priority - business moves so quickly that minimal reflection is done on how things went wrong and how to improve processes - some roles have more opportunity for growth in titles while others are very stagnant, so you see some people being promoted extremely fast while others have no title change for years - It seems that managers receive no training on how to actually manage employees. It seems that they are made managers because they are good workers, not because they are good leaders. They don't seem to give leadership training to managers. - there does not seem to be any value placed on worker retention. You will work really hard and have really awesome perks, then burn out and leave or get fired. - SpaceX has the highest turnover rate I've witnessed in a workplace. As soon as you get to know someone and they seem proficient, they leave and are replaced by someone fresh out of college.

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