SpaceX McGregor Internship - Anonymous employee SpaceX Employee Review

4.0
Jul 20, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

SpaceX was a extremely fast-paced and rewarding experience. From day one, I was given the tools to learn almost anything about the company or the products I needed to for my projects. The launches are really cool to watch with other employees, especially knowing that you physically touched and worked on parts of that launch system. There is a very competitive and informative company culture that means most of the time everyone is very focused and attentive. I personally really liked the work hours, and I would be fine working more, but they cap interns at a certain amount per week. Partially because of this, most interns hang out together outside of work hours, and we had a lot of fun over the term.

Cons

Because of the group I was working with and the particular timing of my internship, I didn't get the chance to interact with my teammates as much as I would have liked to, and I ended up working on a slew of projects all over the site. Additionally, among interns there is somewhat an atmosphere of competition in terms of intensity, but it is not as bad as I was expecting. Unfortunately, it is very hard to get hired at SpaceX, and few interns get hired on full time.

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You learn so much because the work is so freaking intense, its a lot of fun if you're the type of person who loves to get emerged in hard problems. The hours for me were not too bad but I was the exception, all the other interns I was with dealt with 60-70+ hour weeks, some interns came in at 10am and left at 12am, when I say its intense, I'm not joking. This is however very unique to the Starbase location. I've heard Hawthorne is a lot more chill. I honestly despite how challenging the role was always look back on it with a sense of pride in my work, and longing to be back there. It really does feel that you're doing world changing things.

Cons

Very un diverse upper management, I'd say the company is pretty diverse in the lower ranks, but once you start to look at the org chart and see who's in charge, you realize that its mainly just white people. Makes you wonder if as a person of color you too will be able to move up. Housing sucks: there was limited housing on campus for full time employees, you have to wait a year plus to get off the queue and once you're off you only really get tiny homes as the option that are in an inconvenient location. Interns don't even have the option to get on campus housing, they give you 3k in a housing stipend and expect you to find a place in Brownsville. I'd say its very hard to maintain a relationship while working here if you don't have an understanding partner, the work schedule is brutal and you really can't slack off.

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