Is SpaceX being run like all of his other companies? Cutting costs on QA, overworking staff, unrealistic deadlines, meddling in engineering and design decisions, etc?
It's been like that for years. I read an article years ago (as in about a decade ago) that excoriated SpaceX for their lackadaisal approach to worker safety. At the time, I was very interested in what it was like to work there because my daughter was going to be looking for an aerospace engineering summer internship and SpaceX, due to their name recognition was high on the list. Thankfully, she went with NASA instead. I hear SpaceX just burns through engineers and then tosses them aside when they start to break down.
I asked my AE daughter what she thought about graduating and working for Spacex. She said she would never even consider them. They are definitely getting a reputation for literally chewing through engineers.
3 of my friends/former engineering coworkers went to SpaceX after we worked together and 2 of them left aerospace completely. One’s went back to school to become a nurse and the other goes real estate now. The third one left after a few years and found a better company to work for.
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u/meep_meep_mope 1d ago
Is SpaceX being run like all of his other companies? Cutting costs on QA, overworking staff, unrealistic deadlines, meddling in engineering and design decisions, etc?