Fermilab reviews

The computing division is very silo'd. You will get good at your one job, but will have your hand slapped if you get caught trying to do something outside of your dept. You won't be doing your IT career much good by working for Fermilab for a long time. The re-orgs every 6 months get pretty old too. THey just replaced all of the desktop support people with Dell managed services, which had the effect of gutting morale for the remaining IT departments. Everyone is in job-saving mode, and nobody is very interested in working together. The salary freeze is getting old too.

Lots of government-required paperwork overhead for everything, being implemented in ways that are completely brain-dead and non-sensical. It's more important to have the process documented than to do the actual work. It didn't used to be this way here, but it sure is now. I guess this is a plague hitting all sorts of work places, it isn't unique to Fermilab... so the good things outweigh the bad overall.