NASA Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Good internship, not what I was looking for in a career."

What do you like about working at NASA?

"Interesting working for NASA and the Federal Government. Learned a lot about how an HR department works."

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

"They want people who are self starters and require little motivation or direction. They like independent thought and action."

What don't you like about working at NASA?

"Not a very interesting job. Very mundane and sedentary. Small workload was spread out amongst a lot of HR specialists."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"A reduction in staff would increase workload for remaining staff making things run more efficient."

"Excellent I.T. organization and space exploration leader."

"I was an intern; therefore, I was not provided the benefits and compensation as a full-time regular employee."

What do you like about working at NASA?

"The environment was free to ideas. The engineers performed exciting technical projects."

What don't you like about working at NASA?

"In my short summer there, I was unable to find any problems with the internship I had."

"JPL is a great place to work, and don't be intimidated by the application."

What do you like about working at NASA?

"Awesome atmosphere - Cal Tech campus affiliation."

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

"Don't be intimidated by the application process."

What don't you like about working at NASA?

"Salaries are lower due to government work."

"Awesome place to work."

What do you like about working at NASA?

"The design work that I got to do on a daily basis for a variety of upcoming missions, from Rovers to Satellites. It typically is a very job specific work day so find something that you like doing. You do have the option to switch between jobs fairly easily."

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

"Don't get too stressed that it is NASA. Everyone their is very helpful and the schedule and budget had a tendency to go over (since it is a Federal funded place). Enjoy it!"

What don't you like about working at NASA?

"The commute. It is a ways from the coast which I can't live without (not their fault). It also gets extremely hot (105-110 F) in the summer. Pay tends to be a bit less, 5-10%, but this is more or less understood by the once in a lifetime projects that you get to be apart of!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management was great, I loved that job."

What do you like about working at NASA?

"Unique, exciting, family atmosphere, research opportunities, and growth potential."

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

"Be as communicative as possible during your interview."

What don't you like about working at NASA?

"Politics and government Intervention."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Pay attention to its employees to get feedback for engineering problems."

What do you like about working at NASA?

"The smart people and the GEAR."

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

"Be yourself."

What don't you like about working at NASA?

"Old type of thinking."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Embrace change."

"I worked under a Mechanical Engineer using ProE software to assess problems on the International Space Station."

"This was a short contract position which I thoroughly enjoyed."

What do you like about working at NASA?

"I love aviation so NASA is hallowed ground."

What don't you like about working at NASA?

"The contracting company I worked for were incompetent, dishonest and caused the contract to be cancelled."

"This was contract to perm position that did not work out."

What do you like about working at NASA?

"It was an eye opening experience."

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

"Good luck to you."

What don't you like about working at NASA?

"It was an eye opening experience, The lowest bidder on a project is not necessarily the cheapest and in fact may cost you more in the long run."

"A great place to work if you are a scientist or engineer."

"Awesome opportunity."

"This was the best career move I've ever made."

What do you like about working at NASA?

"The software development was challenging and demanding. Being around so many other talented developers helped me learn a great deal."

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

"The work is challenging, be willing to listen to all ideas presented."

What don't you like about working at NASA?

"Some project managers were not that educated in software development."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None, it was a very smooth operation."

"Good opportunity to grow professionally."

What do you like about working at NASA?

"Good environment to know about the space shuttles and the space station."

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

"The interviewer needs to know the contents of his/her resume very well."