Not Great for Supply Chain - Senior Material Planner SpaceX Employee Review

3.0
9 Jul 2019
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Pros

Cool Company Fast Paced Awesome Mission More Exciting than most places You Get Stock Health Care is Good

Cons

Your career will not progress here if you're in supply chain. Throw out all the skills and supply chain practices you've learned before and get ready to just expedite and adapt to last minute changes at all times. No need to be strategic or go outside the box, your only focus will be what is hot that day/week. Leadership doesn't care about employee growth as long as they keep getting their stock and salary. Extremely limited opportunity for growth, executive leadership is consistently getting rid of entry level leadership positions and absorbing them into management positions. They are now all quitting because of the stress and workload.

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Cons

Long hours Intense management No sleep

4.0
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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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