NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory reviews

Current funding outlook is bleak and upper leadership not doing what it needs to survive while ignoring employee needs.

Very ambiguous performance review criteria. Unclear career paths. Science is king. You can get stuck working on Earth orbit trajectories with no other recourse - so you might as well work somewhere else that you can have the opportunity to work non-Earth orbit trajectories. Work was very uncertain and the many recent layoffs made for an unpleasant work future with few interesting opportunities.