NASA – It's a great place to work if you want a stable job that pays well. It's not a great place to work if you really want to get things done. The lack of accountability has created a culture that condones the "NASA salute"...a shrug of the shoulders that means "We'll see if I have to do that" | Comparably

NASA – It's a great place to work if you want a stable job that pays well. It's not a great place to work if you really want to get things done. The lack of accountability has created a culture that condones the "NASA salute"...a shrug of the shoulders that means "We'll see if I have to do that"

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It's a great place to work if you want a stable job that pays well. It's not a great place to work if you really want to get things done. The lack of accountability has created a culture that condones the "NASA salute"...a shrug of the shoulders that means "We'll see if I have to do that"

What makes you most happy at work?

The ability to work on spaceflight

What is the best part about your compensation package?

The paid-time-off (PTO) was generous

What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?

If you care about status, it looks great on a resume

What did you like most about the interview process?

It was a telephone panel interview and mostly behavioral based questions

What do you like best about the leadership team?

They had a very permissive leadership style that created a low-stress environment

What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?

The permissive leadership style was a double-edged sword. The downside is that it created a lack of accountability and made it easy for people to disregard work that needed to be done. This created an environment where all the hard work/tough problems were never getting fixed

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What is the best part about your compensation package?

I would do it for free

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