SpaceX Reviews

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Traffic in/around the city of Los Angeles

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Poor and updated on-boarding documents / procedure / tutorials.
Everyone works long hours just because they want to, so there's definitely peer pressure that makes you stay longer. Most engineers in my group work 10-12 hrs /day on average.
They have several internal sites that seriously need to be restructured for coherence. Information is everywhere and super hard to manage for new hires.

Cons

Strong correlation between respectedness and time spent with the company.

Reinforced in many ways, including employee numbers on patch distributions, strict seniority based parking, and the directory which lists each employee's original start date. Takes years to establish yourself as a new employee, even with good ideas and decent EQ. A fair number of "veterans" are riding on their laurels and not challenging themselves to grow or pulling their weight. Resting and vesting until their sabbatical.

Cons

long hours, better onboarding experience

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- Unsafe working conditions (it is common consensus that someone is going to get killed by an industrial accident soon enough, too many close calls)
- Tedious backbreaking work
- Work too much work for too little pay
- They nickel and dime you for compensation, I heard of a guy taking his 5th job offer, and pay is all very secretive there.
- Very difficult to move up or out of your dept because they hoard their good workers
- promotions are at a snails pace, and they don’t treat their people right.
2 minor promotions in 5 years without a decent bump in pay is normal. Without an actual engineering degree, you can’t move up very far.

Advice to potential hires: The turnover rate is high for a reason, the cool factor of SpaceX wears off after about a year, and they don’t want free thinkers as techs, if you’re looking to make a difference, look elsewhere.

Cons

Expectation is to work 24/7, unclear job description, job is never secure, lots of internal fighting between groups and within groups.

Cons

Overwhelming amount of responsibility. Not enough hours in the day.

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50 hours a week mandatory even though your work may already be done

Slow times between projects leaving me not enough work to do (which makes it boring sometimes)

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Long hours, no 401k match, substandard compensation.

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You're treated like a cockroach here.
It's an organization wide problem to simply ignore emails.
Schedule dictates worker safety. Don't take my word for it, check out their safety record.
Sexual Harassment is almost a normal occurrence, there were company wide emails about it.
People are legitimately miserable at this facility
Engineers abuse technicians
Work life balance.. whats that? (some supervisors come into work at 3 am and leave around 9pm. (heads up, this will be you. Working a 16 hour day due to incompetent management is not uncommon here)
There is no such thing as time away from Spacex- particularly for salaried employees
This is a politically run organization- meaning office politics will dictate.
HIGH employee turn over- average career here is two years.
When in doubt- blame the technician.
Engineers treat techs as if their second rate trash
Organization is too reliant on metrics.
Stay away from the following departments:
Composites /PAF ( management has no idea what their doing- force long hours on employees because of this. Witnessed ridiculous schedules and unsafe employee behaviors to meet them. Many of their processes are unclear and if you make a mistake- they love to point the finger. Unprofessional conduct from employees and management.

Electro-mechanical ( Transducers. Transducers current management ignores vacation requests as well as employee issues and allows verbal abuse ( yelling , screaming) from engineers to techs. The current lead for this department will sit at the computer all day and ignore employees who are in need of training and assistance. The lead tech is a micromanager

Solar- Terrible management. Employees are miserable and it reflects in the way they treat each other.
This organization will welcome a fresh employee with open arms, then burn and spit them right out again while claiming credit for their ideas.