A joy to work if you're too passionate about what you do to care about work-life balance - Integration and Test Engineer SpaceX Employee Review

5.0
Mar 19, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Look, I'll be completely honest, I don't have much care for a "work-life balance" like people like to drill on about nowadays. With passion comes a willingness to compete, succeed, and innovate, and become good at whatever it is you want to do, and that takes time. SpaceX provides you with all the tools you need to succeed - I have never had any issues finding work to do, or receiving challenging engineering problems to solve. But with a lot of responsibility comes a high time committment. If you want this to be an average job, I'm sure you can make it that, but I also hope you know you won't be relied on too much, because this place is filled to the brim with people willing to put time, work, and a lot of hours into the most innovative and ground-breaking technologies happening in the space travel industry.

Cons

Sometimes they don't have vegan froyo. Also the vegan chick'n fajitas are pretty bad.

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5.0
Apr 22, 2026
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Pros

Lots of fun work to do! Your manager will make or break it for you!

Cons

Burnout culture Depending on department learning is very much a self guided journey

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4.0
Apr 6, 2026
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Pros

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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