Jacobs reviews

Most people don't really care about the NASA mission. They're just there to drain NASA budgets. Pretty intense bureaucracy. If you're a family man and like God, guns, and football and you're from the area, you're a shoe-in. Hell, if you're not, just lie about it in the interview. Not like they can fire you for it after you're hired, but you will likely be marginalized severely if they find out. So, just fake it. I sure did. The good ole boys (in more than one sense) like to make back-room deals to work their way up the ladder, but they hit ceilings because the higher management can usually see that those people are good BS'ers, but aren't really interested in progressing the NASA mission. The transplants are usually better to work around. They don't have inferiority complexes.

Backwards in every other way. All resources are mismanaged. Positions are filled by those who have been hand picked and groomed - no postings made, and no one else is even given opportunity to try. Toxic, competitive culture - no one wants to share their knowledge because they live in perpetual fear of the next round of layoffs. Management is unwilling to invest in infrastructure or software, let alone employee development.