Battelle reviews

Working at Battelle is all about whom you know. Tell me your name, I’ll tell you the policy runs rampant through the company. Used to have a great benefits package... it is rapidly declining. Pays executives and management exorbitant amounts of money – even when they do not perform. Moral is extremely low. Forecasting and money management is lacking. Many layoffs recently took place. Now management sees those positions were necessary and is rehiring. Recent switch to PTO and reduction in pension extremely disappointing.

Management has lost focus of its most valuable resource - its employees and trying to squeeze blood from a turnip. Many in mid and upper management are retired military officers and do not realize that they are now in industry and no longer in the military. Hence, they feel that when employees ask questions about assignments, they employees are not interested in the work. Also, management is very tight lipped and there is virtually no communication from management about what is going on or how the company is doing. They do not announce Reductions in Force (layoffs), nor do they tell the remaining employees why there have been layoffs which results in a very stressful work environment and diminished employee productivity. There is also an apparent bias against those without military experience by managers who were former military, but there is the occasional decent retired military boss who is decent and fair to all. Unrealistic expectations regarding timelines by management and marketers who sell clients everything under the sun and promise it can be delivered in an unrealistically short time frame, or grossly under a realistic cost.