SpaceX reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(2,742 total reviews)
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Elon Musk

75% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

SpaceX has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,742 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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5.0
Oct 18, 2016

McGregor employee

Recommend
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Pros

This would have to be the best job ever! very rewarding to look back and see what we have done in such a short time. Being apart of making history never gets old. It's like one big family! It will be awesome to tell the stories one day....I was a part of that!

Cons

I really have no Cons....we have a lot of young bright minds that do what we do and most young bright minds have never seen the real world work industry. I hear small complaints every now in then and if some of the younger people that work here had been out in the real work world before they would never complain! I've been in the working world for more than 25yrs and I've never worked for a company that gives so much!!! this is the best job that I've ever had in my life and I would do it for free if i didn't need the money!!!!

3.0
Oct 18, 2016

Grain of Salt

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-As an engineer, you get to work on some of the coolest projects in the world -Immediate impact of work is visible -Most people are insanely motivated to do their best, which makes it an exciting and fast paced work environment -Some of the smartest people work at SpaceX -Engineers are given huge responsibilities and power to impact so many aspects of the rocket -Technically, there is nearly unlimited room to learn and improve

Cons

-Long hours at times can be draining, even if they go by quickly, little effort by upper management to find solutions to reduce these hours -Middle management receives mixed directives due to unclear goals/vague messages from director/executive level leadership -Pay is not very competitive -No 401(k) matching -Path for promotion is bleak even for top performers depending on team layout -Company culture is not always supportive of working "normal" hours -Upper management is highly disconnected from "grunt engineering" and consistently demonstrates poor decision making -Schedules/budgets are unreasonable and lead to repeated effort or net more expensive projects -Long term opportunity costs of short term decisions seem to be rarely considered at upper level -Once the "cool factor" wears off, lower level engineering quickly becomes frustrating due to inconsistent directive from upper level management

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