Relativity Space

Inspiring technology that has the ability to revolutionize the space industry, and a lot of talented and passionate people.

For a company that loves to claim to not be SpaceX, they somehow have taken all of the bad attributes from them. A majority of teams work 12+ hour days and Saturdays after being lured in with the promise of work-life balance.

Senior leadership is inept and unwilling to listen to counter ideas despite the company touting that they want disruptive solutions. Nepotism runs rampant with leaders hiring their friends or former coworkers, and if you're not willing to blindly follow, you get retaliated against.

It is such a shame considering that this place used to be visionary in both technology as well as the way they treated employees, but with the steady influx of toxic former space leaders, it has rapidly gone downhill. If you're looking for an organization that values the humanity of their employees, then stay far, far away from this place.

Be honest with candidates and current employees about the company you've become. The sell of giving employees work life balance died a long time ago, and it's time to stop lying to employees to get them in the door.

Overhaul current engineering senior leadership and bring in people who have done something of this scale before. Continuing to support incompetent leadership who got in first is only going to hurt your ability to scale in the long term.

Complete rehaul needed of the culture; the toxic idea that the more hours you're willing to work the more accolades you'll get died in 2008.