Excluding retirement, I'm curious to which companies most of our former colleagues have fled to.
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Honestly, whoTF is applying to SpaceX?! Make 2/3 the money and get exploited by Elon. You keep telling us how smart you are, but …
Apply to SpaceX. More work, way less money, love in Bastrop.
Bonus: talk down to people because that’s who you are
I love how all of these O&G guys keep piling onto SpaceX.
LoL. Keep applying and getting rejected fellas. Your “engineering experience” with reading diagrams and buying machinery from third-party vendors isn’t something that anyone outside of your industry cares about or values.
Give us a call when you can answer basic science questions.
Just saw another SpaceX posting on LinkedIn. They want a PhD in materials science capable of doing some pretty high level characterization. Pay range listed: $125-175k 😂😂😂
Has elons fan boy finally got the message that his company pays 🥜
Tesla, spacex, offshore wind, back to grad school, go get an MBA, consulting like BCG
@SpaceX guy = jaded ex
GD dude, you soo po-p end so much time on a companies layoff board that you don’t even work for anymore. You know all the details of our SVP scandal?! GET. A. LIFE. Move on, you’re being incredibly small.
PS - looked at the first post for a principal engineer on THE SPACEX WEBSITE and the top end of the salary band doesn’t touch my salary as a mid career bottom level engineer at EM. And that’s in CA.
You’re poor as compared to us. So d-mb to brag.
For others interested
https://www.spacex.com/careers/jobs/?discipline=engineering%2520-%2520software%2520%2526%2520analytics
@SpaceX guy...here is a 100% reliable source...https://boards.greenhouse.io/spacex/jobs/6899923002?gh_jid=6899923002
SpaceX's own website...🤣🤣🤣🤣. Salaries top out at 170k while living in California. That's like making 130k living in Texas. It's worse than I thought.
But I'm glad you know about incompressible fluids. Bwahahahaha.
@4ozx Oh wow, such reliable sources. What’s next, TikTok videos?
Trolling, not stalking. Stalking is a crime, and I think your executives would know more about that, especially the SVP (whatever TF that is) who got arrested at a LaQuinta a couple weeks ago with some overweight ho. Setting the standard for sure.
@4chw Ya but some of us actually use it post-college.
A current EM employee who recently interviewed for a role with us failed to answer basic questions about compressible flow; he couldn’t explain the difference between a compressible fluid and an incompressible fluid. He claimed 10+ years of post-baccalaureate engineering experience and holds an accredited degree from one of the best universities in Texas.
My personal favorite was the guy we interviewed last year who didn’t know that the water level rises when an object is placed in it. You know, basic fluid statics. He claimed 15+ years of post-baccalaureate engineering experience in EM process facilities. I’ve had interns answer the same question correctly.
Both of these guys asked us for more than $250k/year base. They were both told to go kick rocks.
Damn, I wouldn’t get out of bed for that salary. Below automotive. Way below.
Cool story bro, we all took fluid dynamics too.
@SpaceX guy with the awesome job and awesome life yet spends his time stalking O&G company layoff boards. You work in one of the most heavily government subsidized industries ever invented in the history of man. And by the way, you need O&G products to make your Rockets fly. Without those O&G sales specs, you wouldn't have a job bud. 😉
Top end spacex salaries are maybe 220k. That's a 10yr O&G salary middle rank 40hr work week.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Papa Elon rocket go Bo-m April 2023:
https://youtu.be/CbpmfwFSeeg?si=v1rBscuD0Gy_AfCe
Also:
https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Mechanical-Engineer-Spacex-Salary--in-Texas
https://www.ziprecruiter.com/ojob/spacex/sr-software-engineer-starlink?lvk=9LGw1zf-SHBFkeP0mQbL6Q.--N7PbVqCfc&zrclid=c550776d-793b-487f-a87d-d1f351be111f
@4svf SpaceX rockets have very high reliability, and have entirely superseded NASA rockets as the platform of choice for space mission support. Not sure I’m following you here.
Explosions and other safety incidents are more common at oil and gas facilities than they are at private space companies. Nobody has ever lost their lives or been injured due to a failed launch at any private space company. Can’t say the same for Texxon & friends.
LOL... look at blow stuff up SpaceX guy back again and trying to subtle flex with his speak of CFD and algorithms. It's cute.
Go blow up some more rockets chief.
@3ynj Your sample is the REs working in O&G who have aged in place and done zero actual engineering work for most of their careers.
So yeah, I get where you’re coming from, because the most technically involved thing any of those people ever do is size a piece of equipment (often incorrectly) for a known application. Beyond that, they write purchase specs, execute procurements, and maybe observe the occasional test at one of their vendors.
Of course to hear them tell it, they’re all gods gift to applied science. I’ve personally bounced several of their applications because I know they’re completely FoS and would fall flat on their faces if instructed to perform a baseline CFD for compressible flow or develop an algorithm for analyzing the effects of oblique shock waves.
Common Guys - can we be civil towards each other?
It doesn't take much to assume best intent and not be so condescending
SpaceX guy...don't you mostly blow stuff up?
STEM workers who think they do awesome things at work are such drips. Dude, you argue about minutiae on behalf of a for profit company, you’re not an astronaut. If you still believe what the college recruiter told you about engineering, do you also still believe in the tooth fairy? You must be a hoot to talk to at parties.
You actually work for Space-X?! But you’re so bitter at your former coworkers (and not management) that you’re constantly back on THIS board ragging on us.
I guess we’re not sending them our best and brightest. Man, honestly you’re pathetic. Your posts are a reason not to go to work for Elon’s companies. You think you’re making us jealous but really you’re a giant warning sign about what a cluster that company must be if they hire l0$3rs like you. Who on earth would want to work with you? Doesn’t matter what the salary is, wouldn’t be worth it. My prediction, you’ll be turfed from there soon as well.
@3dia "didn't bother reading the post" but keeps coming back to check if something new was posted...riiiiiiiight. so happy working for Papa Elon that you are spending hours reading posts on this forum...riiiiiight.
You're the stalker ex-boyfriend that keeps checking Instagram for updates. Move one bud...XOM doesn't want you and never did.
@3tzu Didn’t even bother reading the post.
Enjoy your silly fantasies.
Cool story bro. I assume you're working remotely to live in a blue state while working for a company whose main offices are in red states. I will also assume you are in IT therefore your annual salary will most likley never exceed 200k. And I'll assume the cash you used to buy your house was due to the money you made in O&G and the value increase you got due to COVID housing bubble. I will also assume you were ranked as G or worse which is why you decided to leave. I'll retire a multi-millionaire at 55 and you will be working well into your late 60s/early 70s. It's also not like Papa Elon isn't just as bad as the c-suite at xom but at least you're happy and I hope it works out for you in the end bud.
@3uhl Good as in bought a house with cash in an upscale community in a blue state. Better schools, better weather, better everything than whatever you have down there in swampland.
Life is good. I make bank, I send stuff into space, looks great on my CV.
Keep applying. Maybe someday you’ll get a call back. In the meantime, get back to writing those specs before they outsource it to Bangalore 🤣
Depends on what you think is "good" pay. If you're in the 120-140k range, you're using the wrong scale my friend.
“…looked into…”
In other words, you applied and got rejected. Doesn’t even sound like you had a phone screen.
There’s a reason why private space companies are swamped with applicants from O&G and not the other way around.
@2zbx you must be using the small measuring tape. This tells me you were either 1)
I looked into both Space-X and Tesla before the Twit went batsnot crazy, and no they do not pay well. Other FAANG companies, yes, if you have the skills they want … not Elon’s slave shops. It’s public information, instead of scolding, look it up.
Or maybe you just made peanuts when you worked here. Maybe you negotiated such a bad deal for yourself that another bad deal from the worlds least cool billionaire looks good to you?
@2oeb It doesn’t sound like you’ve ever worked outside of O&G.
It wasn’t long ago that someone on a similar thread was claiming a 50% pay increase after being hired at SpaceX. Make up your minds.
The people successfully making the jump from O&G to other industries have spent less than five years there and have developed externally marketable skills. This probably excludes 90% of the people who post here.
You can all downvote me to oblivion, but that won’t make your silly fantasies any more true. Now get back editing your little purchase specs.
@2yen...WRONG. O&G pays way better than space X but for a lot less work output. Smart people work smarter not harder to meet their financial needs. Why would anyone choose a job that makes you work more for less pay? If that's your goal, go work with the poor immigrants picking fruits and vegetables for the wealthy farmers that dip tobacco all day.
@2eeb He doesn’t run SpaceX directly. He also pays way better than any BS “engineering” job at the typical O&G operating company. The “insane” hours come with some insane performance incentives.
Not sure what most of you do all day, but it probably doesn’t involve sending rockets into space and it probably doesn’t pay as well. I guess some of you applied and suffered bruised egos when you were rejected without even being interviewed.
Actually, you’d have to be pretty d-mb to go to work at Space-X or any of the other troll in chiefs companies. He publicly advertises that he wants you to work insane hours so he can what, add another hundred billion to his net worth while he spends all his time tweeting and telling everyone how smart he is. Cult.
@1oaa They don’t recruit from O&G operating companies. Neither does any other private space company or their contractors.
@1zod Complete hogwash.
EM employees have zero skills (technical, cultural, or otherwise) that would make them an attractive candidate to a MAANG or anywhere else in the tech sector. Period.
I can’t think of a single EM employee I’ve ever known who would make it through the multi-level interview process, personality/technical assessments, etc. If they somehow did, they’d last a month at most on any functioning team within any such company.
EM HR….maybe. But for technical or management roles, forget it. You’re just not bringing the necessary technological and computing literacy.
Why would you leave?
Most the management types I know of moved onto the private prison industry.
Of course it's a small sample.
Google, Microsoft, and Amazon each have hundreds of former ExxonMobil employees. Meta, Intel, and Apple have a substantial amount as well.
There are always some folks on this site that have this strange theory that ExxonMobil employees can't get decent jobs elsewhere. They are wrong of course. Just do a search on LinkedIn. You can filter on current company and past company.
Cool story bro. Not smart enough to work at space x.