Good company but regressing - Senior Systems Analyst Battelle Employee Review

4.0
Jan 5, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

A private non-profit entity with outstanding benefits. They donate all profit to charity. Management, for the most part, stayed out of the way so you can focus on getting the job done.

Cons

Current management running the company like a public one by cutting/reducing benefits in order to bring them back to the standard corporate pack of squeezing more out of their staff. Can be a contractor meat shop (i.e. hire you to support an on-site contract then discard you if/when they loose the re-compete.)

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Pros

They pay my salary on time.

Cons

-They are run like grad school. They have you compete against your co-workers for funding, they consider rules and laws as simple impediments to be overcome by capricious edicts, they will treat you like a rented mule if you let them. I have come to the conclusion that senior management cares very little about work conditions or employees, only about the bottom line. This experience has significantly changed my opinion of not-for-profit companies. If you are a researcher looking for an open and collaborative environment with shared goals, I suggest you look elsewhere.

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