happiest employees are the former employees - Anonymous employee Rocket Lab Employee Review

2.0
6 June 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

place has a really exciting startup culture with lots of hype and media attention. Really good team of people to work with and some employee benefits such as coffee and food.

Cons

Very long hours with next to no life. Very little HR to mediate where required which has resulted in a number of ex-employees launching law suits for a variety of employee relation issues. A lot of great talent has left due to these working conditions including a number of headhunted ex-spaceX employees who spent 1-2 years at rocket lab despite 5+ years at other space firms. Your yearly review is pretty much you saying why your job is important to to the rocket program which will 'change the world'. And the media is kept on a leash with noone allowed to speak to the media and all of these 'official statements' being all this self praise of how amazing the company is.

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Cons

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