I couldn't dream of a worse place to work - Anonymous employee IITRI Employee Review

Everyone is just going through the motions while the same mistakes and failures happen over and over again. There's no vision for the future. Lab and office spaces are at least 20 years out of date, which is an ironic twist on being in one of the most architecturally beautiful cities in the world. Because there is no vision, there is little (if any) room for career growth. In this environment, where the company doesn't look at the big picture, pay is not competitive, and there's little concern for maintaining and cultivating good talent. Employees are commodities: get them for cheap, get whatever you can from them, repeat. IITRI does just enough to keep the doors open because the average tenure is 12 years: lifers who coast knowing they're pretty much the only ones who know how the dysfunctional machine operates. Management probably knows it's too risky to cut dead weight because processes at IITRI are shambolic, inefficient, and irreproducible, making them hard to change and impossible to teach to someone new.