SpaceX Structural Engineer reviews

4.0

89% would recommend to a friend

(8 total reviews)
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Elon Musk

100% approve of CEO

84% positive business outlook

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5.0
Jan 9, 2016

Structures Engineer

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Pros

Fast pace projects and short development cycles allow for quick growth and experience. You get to quickly try out your ideas and find out if they work or not. Designing reusable is a problem no one has solved fully yet. As a result, management encourages out of the box thinking and calculated design risks to meet this ambitious goal. Incredible amount of responsibility given to entry level engineers.

Cons

Expectations are incredibly high for all the engineering staff at SpaceX. To meet quality and throughput expectations requires a lot of hours.

4.0
Mar 10, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Every engineer working at SpaceX has a significant amount of responsibility assigned to them. Because the problems are always hard, working at SpaceX is not easy and is often frustrating. The kind of people that do well at SpaceX are those who both enjoy solving problems and are persistent enough to continue solving problems when they are no longer enjoyable. The management tends to defend and encourage ambition, allowing these type of people to succeed.

Cons

I don't know anybody who could claim that they wanted to work at SpaceX the whole time they were working there. It is rewarding and infuriating in waves and for some people the bad outweighs to good.

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