Working at SpaceX

What the job actually costs and gives once the badge is on: how much hours and pace differ between engineering and hardware roles, what the pay adds up to once equity is counted, and who tends to stay.

• What is it like working at SpaceX? Intense, fast, and all-consuming.
• What do SpaceX employees wish they'd known before starting? The pace and the pressure are the real shock.
• What does working at SpaceX pay, all-in? Roughly $100K to $180K all-in for engineers.
• Is SpaceX's intense pace sustainable, or a phase people burn out of? Sustainable, but only because they rotate people out.

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