Unfortunate changes in NASA direction - Aerospace Structures Engineer NASA Employee Review

3.0
14 Jan 2025
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Pros

-Good benefits -Decent pay & work / life balance, at least as a new employee

Cons

-Most design work has been relegated to contractor partners -Agency priorities have shifted away from science & exploration at the forefront. Building the space economy (funneling money to aerospace contractors) is now the focus.

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5.0
19 Jun 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
19 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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