Fantastic vision; forming it's bureaucratic focus for the betterment - Anonymous employee SpaceX Employee Review

4.0
13 Jul 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Incredible mission - you'll live the rest of your life known as the guy/gal who worked at SpaceX Smart people - there will be blockheads in the mix, but the majority of employees at SpaceX are the best of the best Thrill of the launch - nothing beats the camaraderie of watching a launch from behind the glass of Mission Control. You can't get that at Google/FaceBook/Apple/Boeing/name-your-company

Cons

You can easily lose yourself in the minutiae. Everyone wants to do their best and "impress Elon". Don't fall into that quicksand trap. Do your best. Admit that you don't know something fully - it will be explained to you.

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Cons

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Pros

You learn so much because the work is so freaking intense, its a lot of fun if you're the type of person who loves to get emerged in hard problems. The hours for me were not too bad but I was the exception, all the other interns I was with dealt with 60-70+ hour weeks, some interns came in at 10am and left at 12am, when I say its intense, I'm not joking. This is however very unique to the Starbase location. I've heard Hawthorne is a lot more chill. I honestly despite how challenging the role was always look back on it with a sense of pride in my work, and longing to be back there. It really does feel that you're doing world changing things.

Cons

Very un diverse upper management, I'd say the company is pretty diverse in the lower ranks, but once you start to look at the org chart and see who's in charge, you realize that its mainly just white people. Makes you wonder if as a person of color you too will be able to move up. Housing sucks: there was limited housing on campus for full time employees, you have to wait a year plus to get off the queue and once you're off you only really get tiny homes as the option that are in an inconvenient location. Interns don't even have the option to get on campus housing, they give you 3k in a housing stipend and expect you to find a place in Brownsville. I'd say its very hard to maintain a relationship while working here if you don't have an understanding partner, the work schedule is brutal and you really can't slack off.

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