Ispace Reviews

2.6

37% would recommend to a friend

(38 total reviews)

34% positive business outlook

Ispace has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 38 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Ispace employee rating is 28% below average for employers within the Aerospace and defence industry (3.6 stars).

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38 reviews
1.0
22 Jun 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Very smart and talented engineers. Interesting lunar mission.

Cons

General lack of direction, transparency and accountability from leadership. Expectations are not clearly communicated causing negative work and significant frustrations. Leadership will talk about the problems and encourage employees to bring solutions but they never bring solutions of their own nor do they follow through on any of the proposed solutions. Staffing prioritization is questionable. If leadership doesn't like you or you disagree with them, they'll find a way to push you out regardless of your expertise or contributions to the mission. No career growth for engineers.

2.0
15 Aug 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They are trying to build lunar landers! They also are pretty remote-friendly, though they do prefer hybrid/in-office and only allow remote on a case-by-case basis. The rank-and-file engineers are wonderful people and I loved working beside them.

Cons

Poor leadership, especially at the Chief of Engineering level and above; they don't appear to have coherent high level goals. For example, they choose to prioritize pursuing new contracts over executing existing contracts, despite the fact that executing those existing contracts well is absolutely critical to winning new contracts. For example, filling many Product Development roles instead of prioritizing the back-filling of engineering roles where multiple highly talented individuals had recently resigned, _let alone_ hiring additional senior engineering roles. They also prefer to promote team leads from within, which would be fine if ispace US were a more well established team with years of built up experience, but instead since collectively each team doesn't have much experience, it turns into the blind leading the blind. And unfortunately it appears that most of the engineers with meaningful levels of experience are all in temporary contractor roles. They do not prioritize IT infrastructure or HR - those teams barely grew (or even shrank) during my short tenure.

1.0
9 Jun 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The work is interesting when allowed to do it.

Cons

The leadership, If you have a concern about what is being asked of you, don't, they deem you a problem and will force you out. If you ask for guidance on how to do what they are asking of you, you will not receive any instead they will degrade you, make you feel worthless then blame you for not knowing what is being asked. Management refuses to take any responsibility for their mistakes and then blames everyone below them, they also think they are to important to help solve the problems they create.

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