NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Engineering Department Employee Reviews
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
Exciting challenging work with a multidisciplinary team of brilliant folks
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Satisfying to be able to contribute to the nation & to humanity.
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
Nothing as leaders. I respect them as technical folks.
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They prioritize downward communication often
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They care about the people and the mission.
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They do try to listen, though not always successfully.
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
They treat ppl. without respect. Transparency rarely visible. Too much politics. Not much career advancement opportunities.
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
JPL giving automatic deposits into my retirement
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Benefits, flexible hours, vacation accrual.
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They pay generous retirement benefits
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Retirement contribution from the company is without matching funds
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
More of everything. Total comp at JPL is 30-70% lower than market.
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Pay is significantly less compared to other tech positions.
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Promotion and salary depends on who you know rather than what you can actually do.
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I am paid as a part time employee even though I work hours above the part time employee limit. These hours go undocumented.
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What are some of the best things about your team?
We're also friends who generally respect and work well together. We do have some more challenging people to work with though.
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Smart and passionate people who are brought together to make a mission come together - great feeling!
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They are all really nice people
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All my team members are mutually supportive and competent.
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Promoting fairness rather than becoming political employees.
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
The dedication and team working environment that is absolutely possible and coveted. It is too often torn apart by incompetent management and office politics. Managers are people at JPL who moved up over the years because of their technical expertise - it does not make them good managers.
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Everyone has a can-do attitude and respects others' work.
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We send robots to other planets. What could be better?
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
More transparency, better policies, better pay
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More communications with young employees
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What did you like most about the interview process?
It was fairly easy and efficient
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I never got asked to demonstrate anything.
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Enpower the people who want to hire to be able to hire! JPL HR is terrible - you have individuals who work hard, but turnover within the department is high. Job posts get forgotten, crap shoot on who you get as a talent specialist and terrible communication. JPL is amazing. HR and Mgmt need overhaul
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Interview process is fair enough
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What makes you most happy at work?
Fun, challenging work and intelligent, well-rounded colleagues
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My research and colleagues really make my day.
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Being productive on interesting work
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Achieving something challenging and important to the mission.
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The type of projects and work that I do
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Salary needs to be at least close to industry standard
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