A Former SpaceX Engineer Accuses the Company of a Culture ‘Rife With Sexism’
A female former employee of Elon Musk’s SpaceX alleged in an essay published Tuesday that the space company’s workplace is “rife with sexism” and that its human resources team does not protect victims of harassment or abuse.
Ashley Kosak, who worked at SpaceX for about four years as an intern and then as an engineer, alleged in her essay on blog site Lioness that SpaceX’s culture is “in a state of disrepair and dysfunction so great that the only remedy, finally, was to leave.” Kosak left SpaceX in November and now works for Apple.
“I know that SpaceX is now trying to improve … what I really hope happens is that not only women come to understand how widespread this issue is but also their male counterparts,” Kosak told CNBC in an interview on Tuesday. “We can continue to try to actually start holding people accountable.”
