A great place to work - Senior Engineer NASA Employee Review

4.0
Jun 12, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility in choosing your work assignments and work schedule. Most of the management team are good, friendly people to work for and most do care about you and your family's well being as well.

Cons

Limited pay if you choose to stay technical rather than be a manager. Senior technical engineers can only reach to a GS14 level rather than in parallel with management who can reach to a GS15 or SES levels.

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5.0
Jun 19, 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).

4.0
Jun 19, 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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