Good place to work - Anonymous employee NASA Employee Review

5.0
May 26, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good people, good work environment. I had worked as research scientist for three years and I enjoyed working at NASA ames research center.

Cons

Strict security. You have to pass two security gates every time. Back ground check is strict as well. It took half a year to pass back ground check.

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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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