SpaceX reviews

3.8

67% would recommend to a friend

(2,728 total reviews)
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Elon Musk

72% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

SpaceX has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,728 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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4.0
Aug 14, 2013

Structures Engineer

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Pros

Awesome work environment, great leadership, doesn't really feel like work when you're building rockets that launch into space and writing the future.

Cons

Work-life balance is tough, depending on the department or project you are on you can expect to see yourself going from 50 hour weeks to 70-80 work weeks.

3.0
May 30, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

SpaceX is an exciting place to work. Elon Musk has the courage and funding to do what people were saying for decades--quit tweaking 1950s technology--and combine lessons from the past with cutting edge manufacturing technologies. Lots of incidental perks, from a really good on-site restaurant to fancy coffee machines. The software challenges are probably just about right for many engineers and the corporate goal of Mars settlement is one that could change history.

Cons

Not really Cons, just caveats. It seems as though many people find the programming challenge given to job applicants hard. It seems to be a fairly good match for the difficulty of much of the Flight Software work, so if you don’t find it especially hard, and complete it successfully well before the deadline, you might not find the work as challenging as you hope. If you are a participant in open source activities, ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) makes for a huge hurdle. Hours expected are sometimes long enough that some people nap at their desks. Most of the software developers are pretty junior. Glad I read other reviews because it gave me a pretty good idea of what to expect.

5.0
May 23, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Sending rockets to space People we work with

Cons

Parking is tough but supposedly there is a parking garage that is starting construction this summer that we are putting in.

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