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Buried in bureacracy - Anonymous employee Lawrence Berkeley Lab Employee Review

1.0
Feb 15, 2013
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Pros

Great benefits, unreal job security

Cons

Way too much effort trying to reinvent processes which only adds more processes. Rather unprofessional Finance groups...long tenured employees are not open to any ideas. Mid-management is way too comfortable, incredibly gossipy, believers in intimidation tactics and employees are managed more by arriving and leaving on time, than their performance. No career mentoring. Thinking seems to be you stay in the job where you were hired until retirement.

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Pros

Beautiful location, you oversee the Bay, Golden Gate Bridge and SF. Research environment, great bridge for academics to transition to a more applied research. Benefits quite good

Cons

Low wages, especially in the scientific staff. Basically no career progression. Offices are a mixed bags (some departments have brand new buildings, others have very old buildings). Do not rely on their immigration services to get anything beyond temporary work visas.

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