Forefront of science. Back end of common sense. - Applic Dev & Sys Analyst III Fermilab Employee Review

3.0
Aug 9, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Collegiate atmosphere -- no corporate dress code. Lots of intelligent educated people. Lots of international exchange. Interesting research on the cutting edge of science. Lovely campus, an oasis of green.

Cons

Lots of government-required paperwork overhead for everything, being implemented in ways that are completely brain-dead and non-sensical. It's more important to have the process documented than to do the actual work. It didn't used to be this way here, but it sure is now. I guess this is a plague hitting all sorts of work places, it isn't unique to Fermilab... so the good things outweigh the bad overall.

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