Amazing Company with No Strategy - Anonymous employee Battelle Employee Review

2.0
Feb 26, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Smart people; fascinating work; active in the community; great employee resource groups; lots of opportunities to get involved with philanthropic endeavors.

Cons

Benefits are marginal; top of the house (ALL white, middle aged, Christian, straight men) didn't communicate a strategy; poor balance between work /life (the former always takes priority); very little diversity in management ranks; very poorly executed voluntary retirement and separation programs executed with NO HEAD OF HR. Who does that??

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