Jet Propulsion Laboratory Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"JPL has great missions to work on, but awful politics"

What do you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"The missions are great, spacecraft exploring much of our solar system"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The missions are great, but you better have a tolerance for poor management and waste"

What don't you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"The politics are awful, with incompetent managers who got there by backstabbing and stealing credit"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Current management should retire and select their replacements by random draw among employees since their choices in subordinates are so bad"

What do you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"Working in a unique domain (space exploration), talented group of software developers"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It's fun for a while but be prepared to move on when it gets old."

What don't you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"Too mired in legacy ways of thinking and doing work, never time to do it right but always time to do it over. Too much internal competition--duplication of effort and wasted time--multiple stove-piped internal organizations working against one another not competing for the same work but worse actually *doing* the same work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"move away from the failing, legacy hierarchical management system to a better, more modern organizational leadership model where software development using Scrum and design methodologies are encouraged and can flourish."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It's very difficult to obtain employment. You must start out as a contractor before you can become a direct employee."

"Was wondering what's the purpose of filling out a review for a previous place of employment"

What do you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"the environment was excellent, the people fantastic and new technology was always on the leading edge."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Positive attitude and willingness to be open to new technology and be adaptable to change and just, go with the flow."

What don't you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"I liked working there, but I got married and had to relocate to New Zealand, due to child custody issues with my new husband's child."

"Good place to work."

"One of the best work experiences of my life; to bad it is goverment"

What do you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"The wide array of projects and the hands-on experience of hardware to software configuration"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Most likely the original role you sign up for will change and you will do somethign completely different"

What don't you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"Compensation! non-profit organization does not lend itself well to compensating for the vast roles and responsibilities"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Probably to many cheifs and not enough workers."

"Classifying the export regualations & train the lab (scientist & engineers) with the regulations"

What do you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"Flexible working hours, assisting & training people with the export regulations"

What don't you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"Not enough challenges"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They didn't properly managed the staffs with their daily work"

"Great environment"

What do you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"Almost everything"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Go for it!"

What don't you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"Lack of true job security"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Give more adequate warning before layoffs"

"Good place to work"

What do you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"Have good work atmosphere"

"Great place to work with a lot of cool technologies, but slow career growth like other government agencies."

What do you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"Working with incredibly smart people on projects with world impact."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Maintain a good attitude and display scientific curiosity."

What don't you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"Slow career growth and difficulty transitioning among departments."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be less bureaucratic."

What do you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"Great Challenge, and very satisfying!!"

What don't you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"Long commute."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More communication as to what's going on with the Projects."

"It was a great experience."

"A great opportunity to work with very smart people."

What do you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"It was an opportunity to work with the brightest scientific minds in the world on experiments that had the potential to change the way we look at the universe."

What don't you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"The pay was substandard compared to the private sector."

"great for a number of years"

What do you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"good environment in the past"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"hard to say"

What don't you like about working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

"poor managment changes"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"acquire technical people for management positions"

"Fun job with good people."