5.0
Jul 5, 2008
Current employee
Albuquerque, NM
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Sandia offers a chance to work with really excellent scientists and engineers on important problems for the nation. The scale of problems that can be worked on is much bigger than can be done at a university and the problems can have a much longer term impact than are pursued by industry.
Cons
Important national security work is, by necessity, classified. Nevertheless, working on classified problems is a negative since it comes with many restrictions (e.g. no cell phones at work, limited ability to work from home, limited audience to share ideas with or get feedback from) that aren't present in unclassified work.