Spacex offer
I currently work as an AE for an EDA company. Recently received an offer for a SOC physical design verification engineer for spacex in Hawthorne. I know I will learn a lot more at spacex but wondering if the potential cons would be worth it. Pretty good wlb right now and i work 100% remote. A little concerned about the wlb and potentially toxic culture though with spacex and I would have to move to LA. Not in CA currently. Has anyone worked with spacex on hardware side? Would you take it? Current tc: 150k Spacex: 200k 3 yoe
Culture is fun in Starlink, WLB will not be good. Also team is quite inexperienced but eager to learn.
SOC team specifically is inexperienced?
Yeah, they had some setbacks last year and most of the experienced people left soon after. That being said a lot of SpaceX is Jr Engineers running the show. Elons style is to get them young and burn them out.
Had FPGA offer with them, declined due to bad perception of wlb. Manager was completely upfront about the expectation of 50-60 hours plus weekends 😕 Would've been more work than my HFT lol
It’s really only occasionally working on weekend. No different than any other company I’ve worked at TBH
Yeaaaah even still, with the anticipated schedule I'd be making way less hourly. It's tricky cuz stock grant aside they only offered around 140k base whereas everyone else was in the 200s (most of my competing TCs were mid 300s including RSUs) Maybe they just lowballed me lol
I think that position is pretty open for location. So if that matters to you you might be able to ask for a different location. I. E AUSTIN, TX Bastrop, TX Brownsville, TX HAWTHORNE, CA Mountain VIEW, CA REDMOND, WA Cape Canaveral, FL D.C
How many weeks does SpaceX offer for parental leave, do you know?
If you are even thinking about WLB, SpaceX is not the right place for you. It is poor not because there is a lot of work but because people including managers are not experienced and will make a lot of mistakes. Experienced people leave the company after a few years. Culture used to be great but getting worse over time. Remote work is almost impossible and it is often expected that you work over weekends.
Why would you want to leave an AE role for a PD role? AE roles are customer facing, and in the longer term those are the roles that pay a fortune. PD roles can never get you that sort of exposure
Why would anyone want to start their career as an AE? You're not going anywhere if you work as an AE your whole life and never get your hands dirty. Talk about being replaceable in 10 yrs
I would recommend not to come here. If you are looking for WLB spaceX is not for you. It’s not that great either.
If I had a great wlb + remote job opportunity lined up right now I'd leave tomorrow. But maybe at 3yoe it's not a bad time to crank up the difficulty.
stay away as far away as u could from silicon backend team.. it aint good. Incompetent people trying to learn on expense of others by their project slides and interviews..! thy hve no idea of an actual SoC tapeout.
Yoe?
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