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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Interview Surveys National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Workplace Surveys National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Salary Surveys National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Business Outlook Surveys Job Title: Senior Scientist Location: Cleveland OH Submitted on: 16-Sep-04 Job Title Workplace Survey Senior Scientist I began my career in 1982. Well, it is in the time of change. The management is more interested in social culture than getting the job done. They worry about National politics. In the beginning working here was fun. You could do your research in the lab and interact in a non-competitive way with outside research group. But now you can't. The way they are funding internal research, for good or bad, makes you competitive with every other researcher in the world. That decreases the free flow of ideas and discussions. It limits you in being unbias organizer of research teams with other government labs, universities and industry; because your funding is uncertain. This means that ideas you learn from others could be used later in proposals that would be in competition from the same people you have teamed with, because you must find external research money yourself. Whether this is the intent of the current policy and actually promote better utilization of government money used for research is not clear. But I do know that is doesn't lead to focus research that is sustainable for over 5 years which would be capable of taking an idea on the desktop turning it into a laboratory project and then applying it to a system. There is no way that this could be substain with a Broad Area Announcement every 3 years for all of the research money. Enough of that. Dress code here is very informal. During the summer people will come in tennis outfits if they are going to take a bit of time off and have a match. The center reflects closely the general population with excepts for some of the very small minorities like American Indians, and Hawaiians. But then we are only 1 or 2 people from being at or above the national average. Advancement is good. Though technical achievement in ones area has taken a back seat to social responses to the center's local commitments. NASA Interview Surveys NASA Workplace Surveys NASA Salary Surveys NASA Business Outlook Surveys Vault Employee Surveys: Read insider employee surveys to get the inside scoop on hiring and working at top employers. We have 55625 surveys for 5288 employers.