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      4.1

      57% would recommend to a friend

      (174 total reviews)
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      Christopher Scolese

      71% approve of CEO

      17% positive business outlook

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      4.5

      Work/Life balance

      4.4

      Culture and values

      4.2

      Diversity and inclusion

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Senior management

      NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 174 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace and defence industry (3.6 stars).

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      174 reviews
      1.0
      20 Oct 2019

      Nightmare!

      Aerospace technician
      Recommend
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      Pros

      I loved my job and did it well

      Cons

      If you have a supervisor who doesn't like you, NASA Goddard will enable it. They feel that they have no right to stop criminal behavior as long as it does not involve a government employee, I suffered 17 years of flagrant abuse and Goddard knew about it the whole time and did nothing to stop it.

      2.0
      21 May 2016

      Stay away

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - Great coworkers

      Cons

      - Terrible mismanagement: People in management who make 2 or 3 times more than you do who don't know what they are talking about when it comes to the technical aspects of a project. Management will also say one thing one day and then the complete opposite the next and lie about ever saying the former. - Contractor vs Civil Servant mentality - Lack of career growth - Restrictive Work Environment (do as you're told, my way or the high way)

      2.0
      7 Jan 2020

      Jobs Program

      Aerospace engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      -Job security -Friendly work environment -no dress code or standards -some projects allow innovation and are great to work on -some good people fight the bureaucracy and actually get stuff done -Best place to work if you're lazy and and want to collect a dependable paycheck

      Cons

      -Performance is irrelevant to pay. Time in service is everything. -Higher performance = more work. Low performance = less work and expectations. Same pay either way. -Arrogant older employees who treat workers with < 20 years at Goddard like morons. -Extremely top heavy organization -Nepotism. Whole families work here and hires often aren't based on any real merit but who people know. -Watching the contractors constantly rip off the government is depressing. -Quality of recent hires is very poor due to job market and economy. -Location is almost as bad as it gets

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