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Former SpaceX Employee Alleges Age Discrimination in Complaint
- ‘I was quite hardcore,’ the 62-year-old wrote in an essay
- SpaceX didn’t respond to request for comment about allegations
SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
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A former SpaceX employee is alleging in an essay published Wednesday that he experienced ageism while working at the Elon Musk-run company, and has filed a complaint claiming discrimination with Washington state authorities.
John Johnson said he first came to the company in 2018 to work as a principal engineer in optics and early on got “consistently solid” performance reviews. “I was quite hardcore,” he wrote in the essay published on the whistleblower site Lioness.