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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3.0
Nov 4, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Cutting edge, and doing a very cool mission trying to make, with a young atmosphere.

Cons

A lot of turnover at this company, with long hours worked. Work never seems to calm down with increasing demand upon the support apparatus with no end in sight.

2.0
Nov 1, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

free gym membership if you have time to use it, frozen yogurt, lunch once a month, good benefits, decent pay, stock options if you started at the right time now there giving very little. great if your a work aholic and love to kiss butt.

Cons

high stress especially if you work in manufacturing, high turnover of employees, very little training when you come in unlike other aerospace companys, managers play favorites, long hours with no praise from managment, engineers are very inexperienced but act like there the best in the business Boeing and Lockhead have better engineers, constant changes production is a pipe dream, i predict more flight failures once falcon 9 1.1 launches, lots of broken promises for training opportunities.

1.0
Oct 29, 2012

Would not recommend

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company has a cool image, tries to come off as being like a dot com business Some smart individuals who think outside the box

Cons

Unrealistic Schedules resulting in 60-80 hour work weeks and no holidays Unwilling to spend money on tools and parts Lots and lots of travel from site to site (for months at a time) Zero balance for life outside work (don't work here if you have a wife and children) Some very poor management with no idea who to manage people or schedules. Not at all like a dot com (google, facebook, microsoft). You will be treated like a number and expected to work endless hours. When you can't you will be terminated summarily.

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