Impactful work and great work-life balance, but legacy code issues - Software Engineer NASA Employee Review

5.0
19 Jun 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).

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5.0
21 Jun 2026
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Pros

thanks for providing opportunity at NASA.

Cons

co-worker is very kind and genius than C level

4.0
19 Jun 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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