Great company - Integration Technician SpaceX Employee Review

4.0
2 June 2015
Recommend
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Pros

If you love to work on mission critical parts under tons of pressure by management with more overtime than most can handle then this is the place for you. Everything is fast paced with thousands of awesome and super intelligent employees to work with.

Cons

-Overtime is usually mandatory and averages 2-4 hrs daily and 10 hrs on Saturday or Sunday. I loved OT and worked on average 20 to 40 hours OT per week. - low pay - management turn over rate is crazy fast. You can never get a true performance review by your manager. (Some departments) -some managers or leads should not be in there position they only got there because they are buddies with other managers. - great employees are easily unnoticed if they are not social or outgoing. -everyone is expendable for any reason "ON QUESTIONS ASKED"

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5.0
10 June 2026
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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
6 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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