Great Mission, Culture and Work Environment, Poor Leadership - Contract Specialist NASA Employee Review

4.0
Apr 4, 2019
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Pros

Great Mission and innovative place to work. Laid back culture and environment. Good pay and benefits.

Cons

Upward mobility can be difficult as there are few opportunities for advancement. There are very few supervisory/management positions. Management seem to be less knowledgeable than their DoD counterparts. You can never seem to get a straight answer to basic questions. Overall leadership quality is poor. Some folks should manage contracts but not people.

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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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