Amazing place to work... but government - Engineer NASA Employee Review

5.0
May 6, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Exciting and interesting projects, unique chance to contribute to public research outside of academia, wonderful colleagues, thoughtful management, treated with respect, great work/life balance

Cons

Directly subject to federal funding and politics, lower pay than industry. Limited budget resulted in a hiring freeze, so there is more work than employees can handle, and projects are delayed as a result

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5.0
Jun 19, 2026
Recommend
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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
Recommend
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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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