It’s great at first but gets old fast - Quality Inspector SpaceX Employee Review

2.0
29 Mar 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Gratification on the accomplishments. You get to see astronauts, see launches, food, coffee. Sometimes forget where you’re working at and many people want to be there.

Cons

It gets old fast. Long long hours 12hr days, 14hr days. They’ll do anything to make schedule. They push schedule even at the safety of others. Once you make a new accomplished record shipment date of any product they expect better next time even though it took 12hr days for many weeks and burnout to do it. Management needs to be changed in many departments. Low pay compared to competitors. They don’t really care about the employees.

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17 June 2026
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Pros

good place to work and earn money

Cons

Heavy workload and long time work

4.0
6 Apr 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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