SpaceX reviews

One of the big "cons" that people talk about is difficulty with work-life balance. It can be a problem, especially if you have a big deadline coming up. Some people seem to be here 24/7. But the focus is on getting things done rather than spending a lot of time at work. I get everything I need to do done without needing to be at my desk 16 hours a day, and leave when I feel like it. It is easy to feel like you must appear to be working all the time, but it is up to you not to get sucked into that. Perhaps I might feel differently after a longer period working here, but at the moment I am maintaining a routine that I know I will be able to sustain long-term and which gives me enough time away from work to keep me excited about what I do. I also feel that sometimes there is inconsistency across different groups in the company as to how they document work. This is sometimes frustrating to me as I need to work with a number of different people and cannot always find their documentation. However, that is a fairly minor annoyance and the introduction of some new systems is starting to help.

The required hours for success are insane. As systems are being constructed and tested, there is a massive manual effort required to move information around the business. Removal of necessary statusing and confusing communications would provide more time to perform actual value added work without additional resources