Ok for a short stint - Anonymous employee Battelle Employee Review

2.0
Feb 18, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good reputation as a research organization. Great people (friendly and competent) in many departments. Nice team work within departments and among them.

Cons

Little to no management support for career development which is supposed to happen on your own time and at your own expense. The mantra is to keep overhead and non-billable costs as low as possible, but by now this has negatively impacted most Battelle employees in one way or another.

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They pay my salary on time.

Cons

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