Rocket Lab Reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(262 total reviews)
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Peter Beck

95% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Rocket Lab has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 262 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Rocket Lab employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace and defence industry (3.6 stars).

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262 reviews
1.0
25 Nov 2017

Needs to put its staff before its rocket

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Pros

Hires brilliant engineers and you get to work on interesting space technology. Good coffee onsite and a really good group of people to work alongside of. Exposure to complex and cool engineering.

Cons

Extremely long hours, then when you are wrecked something will go wrong and you will be there even later. If you are in in certain roles expect to work at 2am as an engineer if things are behind schedule. Engineers are often made acceptance technicians despite being far more qualified. There is no real talent management, no performance reviews, no goal setting, no internal applications for jobs to move around. Most managers started as graduates at rocket lab and really just adopt the rocket lab way rather than having any formal leadership skills or experienced organisational managerial skills.

1.0
4 Mar 2018

Very Poor Longterm Workplace

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Pros

I thoroughly enjoyed the team spirit and the work ethic of my peers. This is a great place to work if you live and breathe rockets and space and live in New Zealand.

Cons

I found that engineers were often employed as assembly technicians, test technicians, assembling kits, acting as procurement officers and even 'engineering assistants'. Engineers are paid very poor salaries and still expected to work 7 days a week at times to meet deadlines that were unrealistic. There were 100 employees before a HR advisor was hired and the first 2 quit in a year.

2.0
28 Sept 2017

Cool project, no life, little management

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Pros

good project free food free coffee talented and intelligent team good group of people

Cons

limited professional development poor management and leadership lots of expected and unpaid overtime high staff turnover

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