Good place to work, hard to move up - Extramural Support Assistant NIH Employee Review

Users say... "The people are great and having a role in biomedical research is rewarding" "great benefits and core facility" "good work/life balance and super friendly teammates" "Great lab and colleagues." "Great opportunity to be mentored and grow as a scientist" 

Users say... "Low salaries and lack of benefit." "can become repetitive, sometime poor management, same activity repeated," "'Bad' Departments has poor leadership, micromanage and terrible behaviors unbecoming of what a manager should be." "Lots of bureaucracy and red tape to navigate" "Certain managers (and this is a systematic problem government wide) that focus on promotion based on 'time in grade' rather than job performance."