Was good a couple years ago; now you should stay away - Inventory Specialist SpaceX Employee Review

2.0
Mar 13, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

It's cool to say you work at SpaceX. There's free ice cream and coffee on breaks. The food is good in the main building if you can make it there. Every other building just gets whatever food truck that outsourced to that day.

Cons

I don't even know where to begin. For one, it's in a constant state of flux; management is continuously breaking things to fix them. They make a huge deal about wanting innovative and independent thinkers in the hiring process, and once you get in the last thing they want to hear is input from you. All processes are autocratic; management just makes up stuff they want and force the analysts to put it into practice (despite their objections) and you basically just deal with it ("don't like it, leave" mentality). Management are all yes men; they tell you anything you want to hear to your face whenever you bring up any kind of concern to them, but 9/10 times will just do whatever they want and/or just not follow up with you or help you out (unless you're one of their favorites). You work long hours. 10 hours minimum. Doesn't seem like much at first but gets real old real fast. you used to be able to have OT by working 12 hours or coming in on weekends, but they cut weekends when I left and Im not sure if they cut 12 hour shifts yet. Wouldn't be surprised if they did. They have a HUGE wall of bureaucratic language they hide behind when giving reviews, Basically, its to give raises to their favorites and give next to nothing to people they are indifferent to. When you ask about why you score on a certain section of your review is so low, they simply say "we'll talk later". Later never comes. Worst of all, if you have any aspirations to get into another department, forget about it. Unless you're somebody's favorite or want to become a lead, you're on your own. Even then, your leads will just act like you just want to get out of work, complain and not want to give you any time for professional development. Every other department at SpaceX from what I saw worked completely differently than this one. This is probably the one department you DO NOT want to go to. Also, SpaceX wants to cut over 1 Billion in costs over 2019. They laid off 10% (probably more) of the company in January, and they plan on doing another mass layoff soon. Don't bother.

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Good pay Good experience Hands on work

Cons

Long hours Intense management No sleep

4.0
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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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