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by FiberBundle 358 days ago
In the spacex subreddit there are comments claiming that key engineers have left the company because of differences with leadership/culture. Not sure how credible those are, but spacex has had suspiciously many failures recently.
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Waterluvian 358 days ago
It’s not even just a binary state of an engineer being there or not. The morale and general attitude of the environment can cause engineers still there to just not have their hearts in it.

I think about the countless engineering success stories I’ve read where you can tell the people involved were just living and breathing the problem.

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Gareth321 358 days ago
It's hard to tell whether key engineers were the differences between success and failure but Comparably lists SpaceX’s Retention Score as an A– grade, placing it in the top 15% of similarly sized companies based on employee feedback. Additionally, SpaceX boasts an Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) of +25, placing it in the top 25% among peer companies comparably.com.

https://www.comparably.com/companies/spacex/culture/seattle

https://www.comparably.com/companies/spacex/enps

U.S. tech companies are notorious for high turnover and SpaceX doesn't seem particularly bad.

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floatrock 358 days ago
Sounds impressive, sure. Question is how much weight do you put into survey stats like those given Musk's extensive history of things like buying the influence he wants, putting his thumbs on the scales of his truth-bot, getting generous valuations based on hype and stories, knowing about "those vote counting computers" (Trump's own words), ruthlessly firing anyone who disagrees with him, etc etc etc.

Then again, they are launching tons of rockets, and any cult leader has his followers, so what do I know...

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bell-cot 358 days ago
Not to say that Musk's been particularly endearing lately - but what would the normal turnover in an engineering-centric company the size of SpaceX be?

Especially with how hot the field is these days. I suspect "key" SpaceX engineers do not lack for lucrative offers.

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marvin 358 days ago
There was a seriously sour grapes quality to that comment thread. I wouldn't give it too much weight without hearing from actual SpaceX employees.
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