Friendly, smart coworkers. Long but rewarding hours. - Anonymous employee Rocket Lab Employee Review

4.0
Mar 10, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Work on rockets. -Coworkers and management are friendly. -Everyone is willing to help. -Good perks. -Challenging and rewarding work.

Cons

-Pay is engineering industry standard for a workforce that is well above standard. -No overtime for salary workers -Company is in transition from a startup to a large company which means a lot of systems and procedures are archaic.

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Rocket Lab Response
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Hi there, Thank you for your thoughts! We're so happy to hear you're enjoying your time working at Rocket Lab, and that you find your colleagues and managers friendly and like working alongside them. We appreciate the feedback regarding salary – we would definitely say our people are superstars! We do have a number of people who come over from overseas where wage and conditions are different, however we have had our remuneration bench-marked and we are on par with our local markets. We also currently have an overtime clause for salaried workers if they have worked at the weekend, and we encourage that if weekday overtime is a regular occurrence, you discuss your workload with your manager or P&C so that we can look at the distribution of work. In relation to processes, we have put a lot of time into this over the past 6 months and we hope you can see a real benefit in relation to more structure and formalisation. But we are ever-evolving and are still working on this one day to day. Thanks again for the feedback and for all your hard work! -Rocket Lab People and Culture

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