diminishing......... - Principal Research Scientist Battelle Employee Review

3.0
Sep 7, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Work with multidisciplinary technical teams; interesting projects; great campus in Columbus with a lot of history.

Cons

Battelle is in a period of drastic change. Battelle was not able to win sufficient numbers of research contracts over the past 2-3 years, and therefore the contract research workforce is being drastically reduced through layoffs, and early retirement offers. Currently, tough place to be a research scientist. Overall, Battelle is unloading a majority of its talent to cut costs.

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They pay my salary on time.

Cons

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