SpaceX reviews

Very dynamic work, strong sense of adding value and impact, low bureaucracy and opportunity to enact projects, great people to work with, on-site access to most of your daily needs - food, car cleaning, dentist, doctor. Good vacation and health care Day to day work is fast paced and dynamic as a material planner. We are still young as a supply chain planning organization so there are lots of opportunities to created processes and policies. Planners have a large portfolio of parts they are accountable. Planning can be best compared to work that an NPI Material Planner does at more mature planning organizations as we are an R&D/Innovation focused company. Expect lots of opportunities to work cross functionally with operations, engineering, purchasing, and inventory. Planners should want to make an impact day to day knowing that we are trying to make humanity a multi-planetary species. You will have an opportunity to put your fingerprint on that mission to change the world but that takes a lot of work. Successful planners will not only accept changes and shifts in priorities will happen often but learn to predict and anticipate where these shifts occur.

Orientation and new hire: I took this job as my first after getting my masters from a large public institution. While I had a strong technical background, I knew very little about the manufacturing world. My manager and group made sure from day 1 that I was connected with the right resources, and they facilitated learning in this fast-paced environment. Company expectations: SpaceX puts you in charge of your own projects and holds you personally accountable for completing them. This can be a daunting task, but is extremely rewarding and fulfilling when you are successful. It is fully expected that if you do not know something, you need to go find the resources and learn how to do it. Atmosphere: This is where SpaceX is either make or break for you. It is a very fast-paced, competitive, and at times stressful atmosphere. If you enjoying pushing yourself to your engineering limits, learning something new every day, and working your *butt* off to accomplish something amazing, then you are in luck; because you will be surrounded by young engineers from around the country who want to do the exact same thing. Seriously, I am constantly amazed by how young the workforce is, but just how much they know about their chosen subject matter. The energy in the building is always very high and everyone here believes in the vision of the company. Benefits: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are subsidized and the food is pretty good quality, with several options that rotate by week. There are also subsidized food trucks that rotate daily. If you take advantage of these, your cost of living in LA goes wayy down. Also, free barista coffee, fruit, frozen yogurt. It's the little things that make you appreciate working here.