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Rocket Lab USA

What is the best part of working at the company?
Lousy training. Not a team playing environment in the area I work in. No team meeting in the morning. No  communications with supervisors. I can't speak for the rest of the company I was in only one area. But the area worked in needs a lot improvement. I our lead didn't care about the new employees only there team. A lot favoritism in our department. If you were accepted in your department you were good and will the support you needed. Otherwise forget it.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
No communication. Not good training at all.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
If were accepted you part of the team. If you weren't you were outcast.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful and frustrating. Very little help to find tools to get your job done. Mostly being ignored all the time. The lead don't care about if don't like you. Hard to get your job done

This by far was one of the most toxic places to work for under the current management. While I CAN say I did learn a lot from my co-workers and enjoyed working with them I CANNOT say the same for the leadership. In my time there I learned to run 3 tools which should have promoted me to the Operator II position but my supervisor swept it to the side each time I brought it up. Constant demand for production with little to no understanding of the daily stresses and constraints on the employees. They preached a culture of safety and commitment to quality that was overshadowed by said demand. Unless you were liked by your supervisor or were basically a "yes" man or woman there wasn't much future for you. Any sort of push back was met with a bad attitude and the employee was in the wrong. If you're looking to apply here for a position in production, take your chances with minimal pay and lousy supervisors.

The work itself is not terrible but the culture seems to be lacking due to immaturity of leadership and lack of overall professionalism. If you need to leave during the day for emergencies, like picking your sick child up from daycare, you will likely be threatened and asked to find someone else to pick up your child. It seems the focus is intimidation and there's no willingness to reach an understanding with management on certain life situation. Also don't bother putting in two weeks notice, they will cut your employment immediately leaving you without pay for the transition. If you are on contract, they won't tell you the pay you would make once you convert, it's generally a major pay cut so it's really not worth the effort.

What is the best part of working at the company?
working with cool engineering products.  

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Low pay and toxic work environment.  A lot of infighting between teams.  Junior engineers running teams without leadership experience.  Senior Leadership doesn't not value Human Resources.  

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
High stress, low pay, toxic work environment.  

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
No work life balance or support from leadership.  If you like to be Micromanaged, come work here.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Unique place to work, Excellent attitudes.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They were having a hard time staying busy, mostly. Lots of down time without steady productivity 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment is great. The culture of the employees and management is even better.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A nice place to work, with nice people and interesting projects.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The overtime, that’s about it. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Working with a team that is divided and has no communication skills. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very cold and segregated. The director has his clicks with people and is very selective as to who he communicates with. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Trying to do your job, but no one knows how to utilize the systems in place.

Do you like 12 hour shifts that are barely covered in all departments? What about mangers that don’t have any experience in this field? Or better yet mangers that leave at random points and you can’t get ahold of? Even when you report that other mangers sweep it under the rug. They pick favorites and make you do dangerous tasks even if you aren’t comfortable. This is the most toxic environments I’ve ever worked for.

Rocket Lab has strong company unity overall, although at times production, engineering, and purchasing would have conflicting opinion about the best way to solve manufacturing issues or shortages. However, the accounting team is somewhat ignored and distant in knowledge from the day to day events. Advocating for oneself can help, but information requests can be received with skepticism, which makes for a challenge in reporting.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Horrible supply chain full of nepotism. Would not recommend working for rocketlab

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Dealing with people who don't know what they want

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Alot of alcoholics that goto the bar after work

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful wouldn't not recommend

Great company potential and ideas but leaders and management are arrogant and fault finding despite the fact I am very experienced.  Creates bad culture.  Senior leader cuts people
Off , interrupted people and didn’t listen as if he has all the answers.  Potential but not with current leader and his focus on negative.

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