Pay is decent, but not a lot of support - Postdoctoral Fellow NASA Employee Review

3.0
27 Apr 2022
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Pros

Pay is decent, have option to work from home, and $10,000 travel stipend is really nice

Cons

You don't have complete freedom to work on topics that interest you. You have to work on what your mentor wants. This is not what a fellowship is supposed to be. Also, you will not get any response when you reach out to someone higher up.

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5.0
19 Jun 2026
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Pros

Incredible WLB, impactful work, sense of pride when talking about what you do.

Cons

Have to work with legacy codebases often (like Fortran).

4.0
19 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

They tend to have managers who were engineers. And, "we're going to the freakin Moon!"

Cons

Government bureaucracy stuff, and residues of DOGE

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