Better than average. - Building Manager Fermilab Employee Review

5.0
Sep 21, 2017
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Pros

Pay is usually above average for whatever position you may work at. People tend not to leave until they retire so It will usually take years before you can advance up. Benefits are good. Casual work attire and flexible work schedule for most departments. Very hard to get fired. Just show up to work everyday and do your job.

Cons

Fermilab is a contractor to DOE so it's a government job with a lot of bureaucratic BS. Lot's of paperwork that tends to move through the system at a snails pace. Very top heavy in management. Training, training, training and more training! When you first start here, you will spend pretty much your first month doing nothing but training.

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It is a place with strong potential, good technical infrastructure, and a beautiful natural setting. It offers a diverse mix of people and professions, and it typically provides more stability and flexibility than industry, along with a fair salary.

Cons

Professionals outside the physics discipline are often not given full recognition as subject-matter experts in their own fields and are frequently overridden by individuals in senior or privileged positions. In many cases, decisions are driven more by influence, convenience, or personal preference than by operational needs or technical best practices. As a result, non-physicist professionals may be relegated to routine or less desirable tasks, while higher-visibility projects and decision-making responsibilities are concentrated elsewhere. Basicaly non-physicist professionals are hired to support or maintain systems that were implemented without sufficient planning or domain expertise, leaving significant room for improvement. This dynamic can lead to underutilization of specialized talent, reduced efficiency, operational challenges, frustration among staff, and, over time, burnout. Definitively not a good place to work for non-physicist professionals. NOTE: The actual CEO is Norbert Holtkamp

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