Battelle reviews

Adminstratively mired in the past. In 2009 the internal cost-management system was the same that had existed in the early 90s and relied on spreadsheet manipulation. There's the Battelle-way or the highway mentality. The not-for-profit mentality leads some not care when administrative stuff gets done.

Extremely "top-heavy" management. Military management style (hierarchy, authoritarianism) was prevalent in the section I was in. Needs to do a better job of finding and retaining good younger staff. A lot of the time, opportunity to advance was defined as waiting for someone else to leave. I had no fewer than 8 managers between myself and the CEO. The business development staff (i.e. Relationship Managers) did not seem to be held to any kind of real sales goals, while even younger research staff at times were... Constantly changing expectations, excelling on the job was a moving target. Lots of required administrative overhead activities with the impression that the results of those exercises (e.g. defining goals) were not for the development of the individual, and probably would never be looked at by anybody with any real seriousness.