SpaceX reviews

3.8

67% would recommend to a friend

(2,744 total reviews)
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Elon Musk

76% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

SpaceX has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,744 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
4.0
Nov 29, 2016

Has been a great place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Important vision and very smart engineers

Cons

Work life balance is difficult

2.0
Nov 25, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

work for one of the only companies actively building a mars vehicle and is the farthest along with that. free soda and ice cream if you want to call that a pro......... lots of overtime...........

Cons

horrible management. very long hours. employees are obviously viewed as very expendable Work Orders are horribly written, they are extremely vague and its very apparent that engineers copy and pasted the work instructions this is even on work instructions for flight hardware not developmental. the are told to carry out this sketchy practice because it saves time and better enables them to be less liable if something messes up. you can call the engineers out on this but they have immunity to any repercussions of their mistakes as far as the Work instructions they write goes. you can ask to go to a different dept if you dont wish to work there and you may very well be granted your request if you are a good technician but engineers are very often not held accountable for their mistakes with the Work Orders or instructions and will pin it on techs if they can in some departments non the less. very poor tool control, if the cant find a tool or supplies they need even though theyve already ordered it they just order more. i cant believe they havent killed anyone yet with all the misshaps that happen so often. the rating on here is not at all accurate. spacex tells its employees to get on here and post good reviews, so the data is obviously very inflated.

4.0
Nov 24, 2016

Software Engineer

Recommend
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Pros

Challenging work in an exciting arena. When they say launch party at SpaceX they aren't talking yet another version of yet another GUI, they are really talking launch ... of something with almost two million pounds of thrust that comes back and lands on a boat out in the middle of the ocean. It's super-challenging and super-rewarding. Lots of folks complain about insane hours, but I don't see it. You can't mess about, but the hours and pressures aren't any worse than at any other tech company I've worked for. The technical rewards are much greater, though. I'm happy at SpaceX.

Cons

I'm not a big fan of the open seating arrangement and the parking could be improved. Sometimes managers don't really understand exactly what it is we do, but that isn't unique.

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