Computer Systems Engineer - Anonymous employee NASA Employee Review

3.0
Sep 10, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Inspiring workplace; - Fascinating research projects; and - Wonderful culture to work with scientists and engineers that are within the agency as well as opportunities to collaborate with Silicon Valley companies.

Cons

- Red tape politics can play cause drawbacks and decrease motivation

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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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