NASA reviews

4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(1,788 total reviews)
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Charles F. Bolden, Jr.

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58% positive business outlook

NASA has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,788 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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1.0
Mar 16, 2024
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Pros

There were no pros at all

Cons

Let's see, I was asked to work off the books to meet some deadlines. One month, I was ordered to put in 238 extra hours, above my 40/wk. When I met the deadline, I was then told not to enter my time in WebTads. Or perhaps you would like to hear about how in a meeting with a person and my manager where my manager told a 3rd person that I could run a device over to them as i needed to lose weight and reached over and patted my stomach. My department was known for dumping employees that had issues. One manager with IBS was pushed out as the department gave him no support and made his life a living hell. There was another employee who had ADHD with a form of psychosis, all well documented before him being hired. When he had medication issues that required him to miss some work, they organized a plan to force him out. This was told to me in confidence by the head of security. I complained to our division director about the antics of my manager. Nothing was done. NASA's response to me was to try and get rid of me. They hired a new manager and put her above me. She rode me every day, rewrote my job description to make it impossible for me to complete my job. I saw the writing on the wall, so I applied for Federal Disability. The new manager was making my case and was looking to generate paperwork against me for not being able to do my job. I got it before she was successful and was able to generate another 6 years for my pension for a total of 27 years. My advice to you is if you are considering working for NASA, stick to the technical departments. Most seem to be happy there. You will need to pay to keep up the certifications, and training as they have no training budgets. Stay away from Customer Service as most employees there in DC think their poop don't stink and rules do not apply to them.

3.0
Dec 15, 2017

Used to be more family friendly

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Working for NASA at any center is pretty exciting. I knew the work I was doing was contributing to cutting-edge discoveries in science and many employees are incredibly bright and dedicated. It truly felt like I was doing work that mattered and led to a better understanding of the universe. I was proud to work for NASA.

Cons

I worked for NASA for more than 30 years. When I first started, it was incredibly family friendly and I knew that I could count on management's support when there was a death in the family or an illness that required time off. Maybe it was more the difference in bosses rather than a policy change at NASA but my last boss was critical and uncaring. He knew that I had an ill child but never asked about how things were going at home (all of my other bosses understood that home life can seriously affect life at work) but instead decided to put me in a situation where my only real choice was to retire. It felt like they wanted to "encourage" long term employees to leave in order to get in employees that would cost less in benefits. I would have rather they be up-front with me rather than the underhanded way that my situation was handled.

2.0
Jun 10, 2015

Senior Engineer

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Pros

The center has lots of labs with facilities to do research. Flexible time to work whatever hours you want to get the work done

Cons

Work environment is very cliquish. You have to put up with reindeer games. Too many civil servant do very little to nothing all day- every day. Langley employee review surveys are the worst of all NASA centers. So the work environment has serious problems

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