NASA reviews

4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(1,792 total reviews)
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Charles F. Bolden, Jr.

83% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

NASA has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,792 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The NASA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government & Public Administration industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
4.0
Jun 17, 2025

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Pros

Assigned projects to work with teams on developing technology for flight and space applications. The job allowed a lot of mentorship between the different projects and exposure to see full life-cycle of NASA projects and missions.

Cons

NASA does a full-cost accounting for each project, which as I understood you are paid by a percentage of a project that you are working on. The issue with it is that not all project funding is available immediately and often is only available for a short period which means that when your project runs out of funds or at the beginning of the new fiscal years, you gain a new charge code to charge your labor hours. Its a minor inconvenience but it often causes a lot of stress and distraction when your busy making deadlines and need to contact team leads and managers to figure out how you should be charging your time.

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