technician - Technician SpaceX Employee Review

2.0
Nov 25, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

work for one of the only companies actively building a mars vehicle and is the farthest along with that. free soda and ice cream if you want to call that a pro......... lots of overtime...........

Cons

horrible management. very long hours. employees are obviously viewed as very expendable Work Orders are horribly written, they are extremely vague and its very apparent that engineers copy and pasted the work instructions this is even on work instructions for flight hardware not developmental. the are told to carry out this sketchy practice because it saves time and better enables them to be less liable if something messes up. you can call the engineers out on this but they have immunity to any repercussions of their mistakes as far as the Work instructions they write goes. you can ask to go to a different dept if you dont wish to work there and you may very well be granted your request if you are a good technician but engineers are very often not held accountable for their mistakes with the Work Orders or instructions and will pin it on techs if they can in some departments non the less. very poor tool control, if the cant find a tool or supplies they need even though theyve already ordered it they just order more. i cant believe they havent killed anyone yet with all the misshaps that happen so often. the rating on here is not at all accurate. spacex tells its employees to get on here and post good reviews, so the data is obviously very inflated.

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4.0
Apr 6, 2026
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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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