SpaceX reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(2,736 total reviews)
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Elon Musk

73% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

SpaceX has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,736 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SpaceX employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aeroespacial y defensa industry (3.6 stars).

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3K reviews
3.0
Sep 24, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Crazy high impact, cool projects, lots of responsibility

Cons

Management is always taking moonshots. That can be productive if you can sell it to the employees. If you can’t sell it, it becomes demoralizing.

3.0
Sep 23, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are lots of options as far as what to do and for employee growth

Cons

Those paths are too streamlined. If you want to get into management go into production. If you want to be a specialist, Go into development. Seemingly the only way to grow outside of these dedicated pipelines is to work extra hours when the minimum requirement is already 50 hrs per week. Over the last 5 years the company has become increasingly micromanaged all in the name of saving money and the hourly employees are the ones who suffer. Supervisors used to have more power to protect their team but that has been stripped away. Initially was preached around the company that you wouldn't get fired for making mistakes, because mistakes happen, but if you lied about it and had a lack of integrity about it you would get fired for that. Now they keep track of every mistake over a rolling period of time, and if you make too many you can get fired. Ultimately this system is left up to the leadership team. And if your reason for the mistake is unsatisfactory then you get points. A simple misunderstanding or dropping something is enough to warrant a point.

3.0
Sep 22, 2025

high energy tough work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

high energy impactful and meaning fast paced

Cons

long working hours, product focused not people focus, stressful

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