Great environment, the work is not always exciting - Piping Material Engineer NASA Employee Review

4.0
Jun 5, 2022
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Pros

Most of the people I’ve worked with are very nice. The work is always about interesting things. There are a lot of opportunities to change up your work and travel.

Cons

The work pace can be very slow. A lot of red tape to do anything. It’s mostly oversight and reviewing things that contractors are doing. Not much hands on work and not much ownership over what you are doing because you are just reviewing what others have ownership over. Management seems scared to disagree with upper management or fight for their employees.

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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).

5.0
Jun 10, 2026
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Pros

Got to see cool rocket launches and good mentors.

Cons

The weather was bad and funding in a bad place.

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