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4.2

84% would recommend to a friend

(135 total reviews)

Michael Witherell

87% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

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1.0
Feb 15, 2013

Buried in bureacracy

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Pros

Great benefits, unreal job security

Cons

Way too much effort trying to reinvent processes which only adds more processes. Rather unprofessional Finance groups...long tenured employees are not open to any ideas. Mid-management is way too comfortable, incredibly gossipy, believers in intimidation tactics and employees are managed more by arriving and leaving on time, than their performance. No career mentoring. Thinking seems to be you stay in the job where you were hired until retirement.

3.0
Aug 2, 2012
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Pros

Cool work, big budgets. The lab has the potential to get the most out of graduate student researchers (its better when the division head is also a professor).

Cons

No clear vision for work, no freedom to find own way. Instead of allowing grad students to explore out of the way ideas, they are treated as cheap labor.

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