Demanding, Unrealistic and Unsupportive - Anonymous employee Rocket Lab Employee Review

2.0
12 Sept 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The staff are very helpful and have a great work ethic. The work is interesting and working with state of the art facilities. Accelerated learning opportunities for graduates.

Cons

Management is top heavy and poorly executed due to the lack of management experience and skills of said managers. Micro-managing is rife. Poor chance of career progression without bending over backwards to impress your superiors - to a point where your health will be compromised. Demanding deadlines and workload with no incentives (pay or otherwise). Working weekends is expected - no overtime. A culture of intra company competition between departments which creates divide and a drain on the very limited resources. Highly strung. People and Culture team offer poor employee support.

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Rocket Lab Response
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Hi there, It’s great to know that you enjoyed our great facilities and working with our fantastic people. We agree that the Space industry can be quite demanding and we do have very high standards. When you are going to the Moon, Mars and Venus, excellence has to be your starting point! We would disagree with your statement around there being no incentives, we have a share program that rewards high performing employees and this is extremely lucrative. We would also disagree with the statement around lack of career opportunities, 20% of employees received a promotion of some nature in the first 6 months of this year, further to this, we have structured career paths, which come in the form of our career matrices, the technician banding scheme, as well as regular 1 to 1’s and performance reviews– however if this has not been your experience please feel free to reach out confidentially to our People and Culture team at peopleandculture@rocketlab.co.nz Thanks again for your feedback. -Rocket Lab People & Culture

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