A place where you can love your job - Research Scientist Battelle Employee Review

5.0
Dec 27, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Battelle is a place where innovation is not just a concept, it's the core business model. If you want to work with the best and the brightest in a wide variety of technical disciplines, this is the place for you. Posers and wanna bes don't survive long. Performance is everything.

Cons

Senior management disconnect is right out of Dilbert. Either the middle high layer of management is totally clueless, or they just don't care. Time on project is all that matters, and nepotism among management is rife.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 4, 2026
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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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