Life Working for the Space Agency - Anonymous employee NASA Employee Review

4.0
Apr 13, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Like most large organizations, your mileage will vary and will be largely determined by the location and department you work for. Overall there are more educated, more altruistic, and less competitive people here than I've encountered elsewhere in the workforce.

Cons

Limited budget, limited ability to affect change, many civil service personnel are "retired on duty" and there is limited ability to remove them or others who negatively impact the mission, support functions always take a back seat to the program, even when at the program's peril.

Explore other reviews about NASA

5.0
Jun 21, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

thanks for providing opportunity at NASA.

Cons

co-worker is very kind and genius than C level

5.0
Jun 19, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Incredible WLB, impactful work, sense of pride when talking about what you do.

Cons

Have to work with legacy codebases often (like Fortran).

See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All