Such Wasted Promise at ispace U.S. - Guidance, Navigation, & Control Engineer (GNC) Ispace Employee Review

2.0
15 Aug 2024
Recommend
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Pros

They are trying to build lunar landers! They also are pretty remote-friendly, though they do prefer hybrid/in-office and only allow remote on a case-by-case basis. The rank-and-file engineers are wonderful people and I loved working beside them.

Cons

Poor leadership, especially at the Chief of Engineering level and above; they don't appear to have coherent high level goals. For example, they choose to prioritize pursuing new contracts over executing existing contracts, despite the fact that executing those existing contracts well is absolutely critical to winning new contracts. For example, filling many Product Development roles instead of prioritizing the back-filling of engineering roles where multiple highly talented individuals had recently resigned, _let alone_ hiring additional senior engineering roles. They also prefer to promote team leads from within, which would be fine if ispace US were a more well established team with years of built up experience, but instead since collectively each team doesn't have much experience, it turns into the blind leading the blind. And unfortunately it appears that most of the engineers with meaningful levels of experience are all in temporary contractor roles. They do not prioritize IT infrastructure or HR - those teams barely grew (or even shrank) during my short tenure.

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5.0
14 Oct 2025
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Pros

healthy environment, flexible hours, project ownership, good mentors, friendly employees

Cons

slightly disorganized, confusing documentation methods

2.0
8 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Unmatched PTO at any US company for all staff. 15 holidays, +2 floating, 18 vacation days, 6 sick days. Excellent compensation, plus moderate 401k match. Many great, intelligent engineers at a peer level, though many were recently let go.

Cons

Leadership has no idea what they are doing or how to achieve anything. They do not listen to bottom up feedback nor do they seem to think more than a few weeks ahead. There is a severe lack of vision, and even when there is a vision there is no one capable to of defining a realistic path to that vision. There is exactly one person above the team lead level that has a plan and can execute on it. This leads to unrealistic timelines, poor technical decisions (because engineers are ignored), and very high attrition. This office will soon be a business office only if things don't change.

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