Your tax dollars, hard at work at NIH - Programme Analyst NIH Employee Review

5.0
Jun 12, 2008
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Pros

Support for innovation and initiative, also support for families, diversity, telecommuting. I'm a weird guy and management/people accommodate (almost celebrate) my idiosyncrasies. Eggheads and freaks are all part of the family. Great benefits, good working conditions. I've only been there for eight years and am still somewhat of a newcomer, that's how much people like it. Also, the pension, while smallish, is unlikely to be sold off to support some executive boondoggle. Jobs like this are hard to find these days.

Cons

Government bureaucracy, highly politicized environment, proliferation of middle management, rigid pay scales with limited upside.

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5.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

Not stressful, science based, not profit.

Cons

Slow processes, too many meetings.

4.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

Working with the some of the smartest scientists and clinicians in the world. So many learning opportunities. Kind patients. Allowed time to care for patients as there is no pressure of quotas by health insurance.

Cons

Nursing management can be verbally abusive with frequent retaliation and intimidation. As most older nurses have worked there for most of their career, they are dismissive of new perspectives and resistant to evidence-based practice.

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