**Honest review here** - Anonymous employee SpaceX Employee Review

3.0
Oct 28, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Very interesting place to say the least. The employees here are great to work with and always helpful to train you. The job in itself is interesting and somewhat satisfying. Lots of “mandatory” overtime if that’s what you like. Benefits are pretty well, but not as good as what others on here say.

Cons

Schedules are reactive than proactive, your schedule changes daily, you never have a life because you work 60+ hours most weeks. You’re told you will be working 50 hrs a week at your interview but that’s a myth. Schedules are terrible and hours are very odd. The pay is no where close to the amount of talent they hire. At the end you’re expendable and they could care less if stay or not, you’re easily replaceable. Lots of Elon Musk groupies here. If you love spending time with your family this is not the place for you. You work 6 Days a week 10 hours a day, and 6 Days a week 12 hours a day during launch time.

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Pros

Incredible benefits, career movement is based on merit, stocks, mission focused, jobs with a measurable purpose, and incredibly passionate individuals

Cons

Clout-chasing and prestige among certain management and team members, greatly underestimate the magnitude of scale often.

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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