Truly a world-class working environment at JPL - Systems Engineer NASA Employee Review

5.0
Oct 29, 2012
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Pros

Working with some of the most passionate, driven, super-intelligent people on the planet to build some of the coolest machines and explore the universe.... What could be better?!

Cons

You work with a bunch of work-a-holics - be prepared to have everyone have high expectations of you! Too bad the NASA locations are all not great places to live... Texas, Florida, California, Alabama, etc...

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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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