Scientist at NASA - Anonymous employee NASA Employee Review

3.0
16 Jan 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Relaxed environment, not pressure to bring in funding, interesting projects. Salary is not bad, and you get some really good benefits. Plus, you have many vacation days and many holidays.

Cons

People are old, not very ambitious, there is a lot of bureaucracy because you work for the government, and you will never get rich here. You will not be pushed, which is a bad thing if you are young and ambitious.

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5.0
19 June 2026
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Pros

Incredible WLB, impactful work, sense of pride when talking about what you do.

Cons

Have to work with legacy codebases often (like Fortran).

4.0
19 June 2026
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Pros

They tend to have managers who were engineers. And, "we're going to the freakin Moon!"

Cons

Government bureaucracy stuff, and residues of DOGE

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