Battelle reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(995 total reviews)
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Lou Von Thaer

60% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Battelle has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 995 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Battelle employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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995 reviews
2.0
Oct 9, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay, good benefits, good people to work with.

Cons

Way too many levels of management. Favortism runs rampant throughout the company and you could always tell who the favorites were. People are overloaded and management doesn't care as long as the work gets done. There is little incentive to work that hard except for getting a paycheck. Promotions are very biased...favortism outweighs qualifications.

1.0
Aug 1, 2018

Research Scientist

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Different exposure to various projects.

Cons

This company is under reorganization all the time. Overhead of this organization is very heavy. Care about near profit too much, even it is a non-profit organization. New management don't care about new research growth.

3.0
May 14, 2018

Trending in the wrong direction

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very interesting and engaging research topics. Intelligent and friendly co-workers. Lots of opportunity to learn new skills. Good 401k contribution.

Cons

Long hours - management expects you to always be available leading to many late nights and long weekends. Low pay for amount of work, level of responsibility and accountability. Expensive benefits. Limited opportunity for advancement; advancement does not seem to be determined by performance, as suggested. Changes in staffing have led to too many direct reports for managers. Managers are not very accessible to their direct reports. Too many silos and limited collaboration across groups limiting the company's ability to take advantage of their abundance of resources. High overhead costs have led to loss of contract work. Over-focus on growing profit as a non-profit organization. This has led to layoffs of talented staff. Lack of transparency from managers on decision making.

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