Once I got the job offer from SpaceX, I thought that would be the best work place for me but it turned out to be the worst so far. It may be cool for a recent graduate with no advanced degree and no family. There is absolutely no work life balance and everything is about how much money they can make out of you. Often you have to work 60-70 hrs a week and weekend with no compensation. and why is that? simply because they don't value their employees. They are spending a lot of money every single day , so employees are treated as robots and not human.
The worst management team I have ever seen. The environment often looks like kindergarten where manager is chasing you to criticize you about something which he or she has no idea about. Many of engineering people at SpaceX have the illusion of they are very smart and it is because of them that SpaceX is getting attention these days despite their lack of deep technical knowledge. I graduated from one of the best schools with a PhD and I am pretty confident that you don't need to be smart to work at SpaceX, you just need to know how to please your manager. I am not saying good people are not there anymore, there are still few of them but from my view credit goes to early employees who developed Falcon 1 technology for SpaceX and then left the company. The rest is just typical everyday boring engineering work. There is nothing new, rocket technology is an old technology, people who have experience in this industry know what I am talking about.
People not at SpaceX typically say Wow SpaceX is doing great , they are pushing boundaries of space exploration and looks like they are very proud of their business but with all respect from my point of view this is all illusion. Can you imagine how much money is wasted every single day at SpaceX because of lack of systems engineering, poor management and no documentation?
