Great for Resume Building, Slow for Career Development - Anonymous employee NASA Employee Review

3.0
Mar 1, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

NASA is full of smart people who are intrinsically driven, so you'll learn a lot from just random discussions.

Cons

NASA itself is a slow moving government organization, therefore career development is slow. Projects get cut at the whim of Congress.

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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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