Great mission, but feels old in the Silicon Valley - Anonymous employee NASA Employee Review

3.0
10 Apr 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

It's freakin' NASA. The type of work is really interesting and people are very motivated to be here.

Cons

The pay is low compared to industry in this area, particularly doing science.

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5.0
19 Jun 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
19 Jun 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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