Senior Scientist - Senior Research Scientist Battelle Employee Review

2.0
8 Sept 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The people are really great, but have to work up against the management stream to get the job done

Cons

The management is in a tailspin. There were several hundred laid off in Aug/Sept of 2017, AFTER a big hiring boon in 2016. As you would guess, the business line managers and above who should have been laid off were kept, while the good ones or promising senior scientists were let go, some after a couple of months on the job after being recruited from other places.

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Pros

Friendly coworkers, great team culture

Cons

Time tracking for every single project

1.0
4 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

They pay my salary on time.

Cons

-They are run like grad school. They have you compete against your co-workers for funding, they consider rules and laws as simple impediments to be overcome by capricious edicts, they will treat you like a rented mule if you let them. I have come to the conclusion that senior management cares very little about work conditions or employees, only about the bottom line. This experience has significantly changed my opinion of not-for-profit companies. If you are a researcher looking for an open and collaborative environment with shared goals, I suggest you look elsewhere.

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