Depending on department, positive or negative outlook - Innovator Scientist TNO Employee Review

-Floating between research and consulting has become very challenging for the current market -Not the best payer, what the employee gets (gross) in the end is 5-6 times less of what he is charged to customers (possibly the worst ratio in the field of consulting). The rest is a very high overhead, which leads to very few customers and therefore available work in some departments. -A really distorted way of handling work, very unique usually in a negative way. Employees have to find their way around and get projects, even if there are people specifically paid for this work. Tough start specially for juniors. - Some parts of the job that are not directly billable as hours to the customer are considered of less importance in the total performance. -At the end of the day, selling yourself and getting into projects is more important than the actual delivered work, specially the closer you get to the HQ (ICT departments). The work is eventually done by people with good network, even if there are people better at this task siting in the next room. TNO is loosing gradually a lot of content oriented people , since there is a pressure for people with good soft skills. -A lot of departments in the loss doesn't seem a very promising future