Working at NASA in Houston, TX: 15 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Houston, TX Area

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"great place to work and great learning experience"

"Work was always rated excellent."

"Work should be satisfying in itself."

"NASA is a great company to work for; where else can you put people in space as part of your job?"

"The environment is too tense and uncomfortable. Government employees look down on contractors."

What do you like about working at NASA?

"The opportunity to explore science projects."

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

"Be direct and don't hesitate with your answers. Always stick to the first answer you give."

What don't you like about working at NASA?

"The lack of support from NASA employees and contractors. There appears to be a constant battle of trying to make others look bad. The feeling I got was that their system was perfect and required no improvements. The environment did not like change."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Try to create an environment that believes in supporting the team by sharing the responsibilities."

What do you like about working at NASA?

"Everything. It was a very interesting job, one that showed me the capabilities that I have and how much I can offer as employee."

"Great Contractors Lockheed Martin, Jacobs Technology."

What do you like about working at NASA?

"Well technically I was working within the NASA-JSC community as a Lockheed Martin or Jacobs Technology contractor as purchased labor to NASA-JSC. And upon closer reading also other contractors Johnson Engineering Rockwell etc. What I liked was learning engineering and sciences in different area of the NASA community. Rotations included on-board communications, flight crew systems, radioastronomical, Command and data handling, environmental systems, human factors, life sciences, solar systems exploration, reliability and safety. I enjoy leaning and changes in all these area provide a well rounded engineer and the added benefit of Program Management skills isn't a bad measuring stick. I've learned so much from the NASA - JSC community and I'm grateful."

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

"When applying to USA-Jobs make sure to read the requirements and re-write your resume to match the key words in the wanted field. NASA_JSC uses resemix to select their candidates. If there is not a match with in your resume to their area you'll not get selected to an eligible status."

What don't you like about working at NASA?

"That I was never directly hired by NASA - JSC and was always only a contractor."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Being able to recognize those who do a good enough job for NASA that they are invited to work as a civil servant because they've earned the right to do so and become one of the family."

"At NASA, I was able to learn many softwares and gained hardware technical experience."

What do you like about working at NASA?

"The work environment was great, flexible work hours."

What don't you like about working at NASA?

"Less growth in professional ladder but good way to stay and lean in once place."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Open more positions for technical people to grow in NASA."

"A great opportunity while it lasted."