Vivo Technician for Over a Year - Vivo Technician Battelle Employee Review

2.0
Aug 14, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Battelle has a good name in the community and it is very interesting to be involved in helpful scientific research.

Cons

Battelle somehow manages to just work for money and stretched all of their vivo technicians too thin. They guilt people into taking overtime that makes them actually lose money by the end of the day due to drive time and gas costs. Upper management also claims that vivo technicians are "a dime a dozen" and they can always hire more. They are horribly understaffed and there is pretty much no training.

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5.0
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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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