Vantaggi
You work in Space industry! Cool to tell your friends & family. Watching rocket launch in lobby with everyone like movies. You will learn a lot of cool stuff.
Svantaggi
Space industry in general is not a family friendly environment at all & Rocketlab is not an exception. If you care about your family, have kids or planning to have a kid, stay away! There is no WFH, no good maternity/paternity & no flexibility. work life balance is a joke. 80% of employees are in their 20's and 30's, single, university grads. There isn't enough space to fit everyone in office so if you have your desk for 2-3 months, you are lucky. Facility changes your sit all the time. Work environment is open area, so no room to move like factory production line & It's too noisy, everyone on a call and they talk all together, you need a noise canceling headphone if you are sensitive to noisy areas. Workload is terrible, everyone is buried with tasks and all projects are due yesterday. In general, there is no culture, they don't care about having a culture. relationship between teams are just work related, no one have time to get to know you. On your first day, don't expect a warm welcome and bring your lunch, they wont take you out for lunch, they are busy! Have you heard how terrible working at SpaceX is ? RocketLab is a smaller version . If you are dying joining space industry, live close to Long Beach and don't care about culture/high quality/professional organization, then join, work for a year and leave!