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      4.4

      86% would recommend to a friend

      (1,790 total reviews)
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      Charles F. Bolden, Jr.

      83% approve of CEO

      59% positive business outlook

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      4.4

      Culture & values

      4.4

      Work/Life balance

      4.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.3

      Career opportunities

      4.2

      Senior management

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      NASA has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,790 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The NASA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Gobierno y administración pública industry (3.7 stars).

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      2K reviews
      1.0
      Jul 16, 2015

      Change is not easy

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      I was able to work in the life science division. We got to work on solving awesome problems in space! The people are very nice.

      Cons

      Change is hard. The academic feels continues through the workforce. Incumbents are stuck in their ways and refuse to hear new ideas. I worked as a subcontractor and felt like a second class citizen. Most of the base is made up of contractors or sub-contractors. It's all about pleasing the civil servant and whatever they want, they shall get. Feels like everyone's got their own agenda. There are no true decision makers, just people trying to push work onto younger staff. I saw no room for growth, poor use of resources and the entire staff being stuff in the 1990s.

      5.0
      Apr 3, 2015

      Retiree - 16 years at MSFC, 34 with NASA.

      Engineering management, data architecture
      Recommend
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      Pros

      The most important fact -- The work is important and exciting. Of course that's offset by some drudgery and bureaucracy, but the big picture of spaceflight objectives keeps most people pretty well motivated. Because of that, NASA routinely makes the top of the lists of the best places to work in Government. They do try pretty hard to take care of their people, within the limits of Gov't regulations. Lots of non-monetary awards, "company" picnics and events, etc. Mostly outstanding staff (engineers, first-line supervisors) and a pleasure to work with most co-workers. High technology. Ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

      Cons

      Salary/Compensation isn't as good as private industry. Bureaucracy is rampant. While my experience showed that MSFC could be adequate technology risk-takers, their culture is extremely bureaucracy-risk-averse. If HQ tell them to do something stupid, they will be very good soldiers. Maybe comes from historic Army background. Also infrastructure (CIO, CFO) organizations run roughshod over the mission organizations. If we don't make it back to the moon, that will be why. Can be frustrating at times. I saw another reviewer complain about no job promotions because of "dead wood". I didn't find that the case for my career. The parallel ladder is a problem in every organization, gov't or private. MSFC didn't seem to me to be any worse than other organizations.

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