If you're down for hard grueling work but doing so with a bunch of brilliant people and care deeply about the mission it can be an incredible opportunity and open many doors. If you're wanting to be chill and have "balance" it isn't a place for that. They have some of the best tech on earth and are among the most innovative companies in history. They work for it though. My buddy rolled out after getting married and having a kid. He has no regrets.
Not quite.
https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404645376?...
There are definitely some smart people, and things move fast, but there are 2 sides to the company I had friends that worked for Space X and Tesla, and I have worked for a UAV companies, and its the same story over and over again. My CEO straight up told us "your reward for working hard is that you get to continue working".
Within the company, there exists a clique of upper level managers/engineers and some lower level engineers, where the talent lies. If you are part of this clique, you love it, as you get a good amount of input on how your work goes, what areas you wan to take on, and it feels like you are doing cool shit with friends where you can easily work 60 hour weeks because you are having fun. And if you do quit, you always have connections and stay in touch and are able to find work .
If you are not part of this clique, you work on stuff you are told, have to put in extra hours to get shit to work because of barriers in the way, you have no say in any direction, and you eventually get burnt out.
The thing is, to join that clique, you have to be hired based on reworking through someone in the clique who can vouch for you, or spend a shitload of time in a company suffering through the burn out to get into an established position when other clique members quit (and hope that they don't hire someone external to fill the role rather than giving it to you).
i refused to do coding interviews i have 20+ years of experience i offered to share my code or work on a little project offered contracting
she said but we send people into space here
a job is a job i can’t pay my lanlord with space dust
All big companies do(did?) this - putting low salary and saying but "this is Facebook!" (real story), preying on young gullible people who think Facebook, Google or any big fish is anything worthy to be a part of.
The FAANG companies are also different in that they already generate massive revenues, so can't credibly claim they can't afford to pay good salaries.
> she said but we send people into space here
This feeling is everywhere now. "But we send people on the roads here". "But we send people on the bottom of the ocean here". We are Agile and only see the quality manager when we jave an escalation meeting with the customer.
you also have severe space and time restrictions, more than in a car or surgical robot.
no agile for sure. there's not much room for agility or changing requirements in space.
https://www.levels.fyi/companies/spacex/salaries/software-en...
so you are looking at 14k per month in payments
https://www.lioness.co/post/at-spacex-we-re-told-we-can-chan...
If you are a female don't bother to work there,otherwise they will sexually harass you.
If you are old,they will take away the work given to you because you will die.
