Hopeful vision brings smart engineers in, toxic managers and work environment churns them back out - Engineer SpaceX Employee Review

~Alot of managers /people in leadership positions have no clue of the technical challenges they ask their team or others to solve. So schedules are so ridiculously short, when they aren't met the managers typically just blame the team and the team gets traded/pushed out. ~Knowledge sharing was stopping amongst team members because managers would frequently have one or two people "help" with a part of the project , then suddenly have them take over and said RE or ME would either get pushed out or quit. The more I stayed with the company the more toxic the environment became. I think mostly due to the managers, many became scared of sharing any nugget of knowledge for fear they'd get replaced with someone else. ~Many , including myself would pull numerous all nighters / work 80 hr weeks to get the work done. (And not get paid anymore nor noticed) One engineer would be doing the job of 5 people. Because of the high turnover, SO much time and energy is wasted, they are constantly reinventing the wheel since the team is never the same from start to end of a project. ~There is NO work/life balance , there are no programs/help to continue an education (what time?), pay is the lowest of any Aerospace company, and in general the company takes great, smart engineers, tells them of the dream to go to Mars/save humanity, then churns everything they have out of them, and throws them away. ~They treat their people like crap, it's just hard to tell while you're working there with the denial claims you tell yourself of "we're building something great" and "I have to work x hrs before I can take it easy and finish this milestone."