Overworked - underpaid - Anonymous employee NASA Employee Review

2.0
Jun 12, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Brand name recognition looks good.

Cons

No work-life balance at all. Work round the clock. Work gets piled on the performers. Low or non-performers appear to have no consequences. They certainly don’t get more work out on them. On the contrary. When you overlay salary and lack of upward mobility…. Not really one of the top five agencies any more.

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Pros

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Cons

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