exhilirating! - Research Scientist NASA Employee Review

5.0
Jan 5, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

awesome people, awesome supervisors, also a plus that its located in the bay area

Cons

being nasa i was pumped to conduct A LOT of impactful research BUT its still a gov org and to develop new experiments and have them approved, it takes a really LONG time

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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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