Fun place to spend a summer - Anonymous employee NASA Employee Review

4.0
Jul 17, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Laid back environment. Work from days depending on your department.

Cons

The cafeteria gets old pretty quickly. The exchange lodge is cheap but pretty crappy.

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5.0
Jun 19, 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
Jun 19, 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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