NASA reviews

Kingdom builders: Organizations like to feed egos and try to keep funding or cool projects to themselves vs trying to find ways to work across centers or organizations to make the most of tax payer dollars and great NASA teammate minds. Engineers are held to power point: The techincal folks usually spend more time behind computer screens finalizing PowerPoints vs being together, solving problems live, seeing things/hardware/processes/procedures in person to maximize impact. Advancement: It's government, some people retire in place (regardless of age or tenure) and up and coming talent that are looking for growth and to make an impact will leave. Some of this could be part of design, some of it is just having less emphasis on merit based reward systems that help advance/elevate those making the best contribution.

The pay is often lower than you could get elsewhere.