SpaceX reviews

3.8

67% would recommend to a friend

(2,745 total reviews)
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Elon Musk

76% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

SpaceX has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,745 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 Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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3K reviews
3.0
Aug 18, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Company structure is designed to enable people to get things done easily and quickly, and to innovate ridiculously fast. For the most part, those goals are achieved. You get to personally and visibly influence a huge industry, and sometimes more than that. I'm relatively young and so are most of my coworkers, and there's a lot to have in common if you ever find to talk about anything other than work. Underperformers are few and far between so it's not difficult to gain the confidence to rely on others around you and your teammates to get your combined workload done. At the end of the day, almost everyone has something to do with building spaceships; there's not a lot of people on this planet that can truthfully say that.

Cons

Effort required to get things done means the hours vary and can be absolutely brutal, and the reward received for this often marginal. In many ways, there's a lot of effort being made to make getting off the planet easier, at the expense of making it difficult to actually live comfortably outside of work. Everyone being able to make things happen quickly also means things can go sour quickly, often through no fault of your own, but you still are expected to shoulder some or all of the mess. Younger than average workforce means less experience in-house, so your ability to rely on your coworkers to expand your knowledge and to minimize the need for trial and error varies and can be limited. By far the biggest drawback is the main location being in LA area; for some this may be the greatest benefit, but if you're not already here, there are a whole host of better options literally anywhere else in the country.

4.0
Aug 14, 2016

lead technician

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

company has really great benefits

Cons

at the company we do work very long hours

4.0
Aug 14, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The job in itself is awesome building rockets and watching them land. The people are pretty relaxed for the most part. It is an awesome place to learn and grow as well as build experience.

Cons

There is no work life balance the expectation is that you will be happy to work 6 days a week and go on 12 hr days for long periods of time to play catch up on there schedule with no reward or incentive.

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