Fast-moving and meaningful - Anonymous employee SpaceX Employee Review

5.0
Oct 14, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

This is an incredibly fast-moving environment and no two days are the same. There's always incredibly challenging and fascinating projects to work on, which have the potential to create huge impact for society. You're expected to work hard, but people who come to work at SpaceX want to do that - and managers are really careful about making sure people are working at a sustainable pace. SpaceX has kept this awesome small company culture even as it's grown, so it's super collaborative and open internally, which is pretty different from other aerospace firms.

Cons

There's always a lot of pressure around launches, which have become much more frequent over the last few years. So you do have to schedule stuff in your life around those moments. But that's what you would expect with working in this industry.

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Pros

* **Unmatched Mission & Impact:** You are literally working on rockets and spacecraft. The cool factor is 10/10. * **Brilliant Coworkers:** You will be surrounded by some of the smartest, most driven engineers in the world. * **Insane Career Growth:** SpaceX on your resume is a golden ticket. You will learn more here in 3 months than in 3 years at a normal company. * **Hands-on Experience:** They actually trust interns with real, critical hardware. No boring coffee-fetching tasks.

Cons

**Cons:** * **Zero Work-Life Balance:** 70-80 hours a week is the norm, not the exception. Say goodbye to your social life and sleep. * **Extreme Burnout:** The "hustle culture" is toxic. You are expected to treat the company as your entire life. * **Mediocre Pay:** The hourly pay is average, especially when you factor in the insane hours and the high cost of living in LA/Hawthorne. * **Chaotic Management:** Decisions can change overnight based on whatever Elon Musk tweets or feels like doing that morning.

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