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SpaceX is fantastic. Young workforce, very high-quality people. Way less drama than I’ve seen elsewhere. There’s bureaucracy, but far less than average because of the intentional flattening of the rank and seniority boundaries that exist in most companies.
For example, I am ranked as an Engineer 2. I have no employees reporting to me, because I am not yet a manager. There are five levels of leadership above me up to the CEO. But I have technical conversations, including conversations in which I am critical of program-level issues, with executives who report directly to the CEO, on a fairly regular basis. They sit at the same desks I do, they use the same chat groups I do, and we are all working on closely related stuff.
This is a company where the best ideas win, not the biggest tenures or the loudest voices. Projects that take five years at competitor companies take five months here, or less. And please understand, I am not exaggerating when I say that.
A lot of haters pipe up and say “Well, maybe going to fast is why your Starship rocket blew up then, isn’t it?” These people literally don’t understand iterative innovation. We knew all the risks, and we accomplished our company technical goals with that launch—fully and unquestionably. So what—the launch getting that far only placed us 20 years ahead of our competition instead of 21! The successful flight will be happening less than one year later.
So, to those people I say: hate all you want. Blue Origin can keep trying to fill their dick-shaped rocket’s propellant tanks with lawsuits instead of fuel, and see if it gets them to space before we’ve colonized Mars and carried out our contract to land the next astronauts on the moon.
Rant concluded.
Moral of the story is: SpaceX is a phenomenal company to work for, and just like the advances in our technical programs, your competence as an engineer or businessman will be 2X-3X-4X what it could be at any other company.
I feel the same about you all! Honestly without the incredible work you do my job would be making the worlds most precise water tanks 😂. In all seriousness though, you are actively fighting physics every day whereas we fight scale and time…very different challenges but both incredibly necessary
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The man’s is the offspring of a father who owned an emerald mine in apartheid South Africa…..
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The culture you experience depends on your proximity to critical path on company mission critical programs and the executive leader(s) responsible for the program. The closer you are the more intense Elon’s influence on the culture created by executive leadership. The further away the more it’s dependent on senior management. It’s honestly so dependent on executive and senior leadership that there’s almost no real comparison between each of his companies except for the relentless drive for progress and innovation. If you’re considering a role at an Elon company and don’t believe in the company mission (in the way Elon talks about it) you won’t find it very enjoyable, but even if that isn’t the case you’re day to day life is way more defined by the executive and senior management on the program
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Thank you so much!