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National Ecological Observatory Network

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National Ecological Observatory Network reviews

3.5

51% would recommend to a friend

(132 total reviews)

42% positive business outlook

National Ecological Observatory Network has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 132 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The National Ecological Observatory Network employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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132 reviews
1.0
Jun 19, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Outdoor work and some good seasonal employees

Cons

Incompetent and disrespectful management with questionable ethics! Reading through many of the comments, I read the descriptions of the backstabbers. This has certainly been my experience with the perfidy of the domain managers ang higher management. Very “friendly” in your face; however, there is much perfidy. In addition, I encountered some very strange attitudes. As an example, one of my narcissistic technician coworkers made the following statement: “I don’t like it, when someone speaks slowly. It makes me shut down, and I end up not hearing what was spoken.” Wow! This is a sick attitude! What if a person has a speech impediment? Does this mean that one does not give the respect to allow the speech impaired person to represent themselves? By the way, I happen to speak 3 languages, and German is my first language, and I tend to speak slowly. The bottom line is that I got away from those disrespectful people AND am now at a job that treats its employees with greater respect. Plus, I am earning a LOT more money!

1.0
May 16, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Good coworkers - Has maintained remote work - Respect for work-life balance - You can learn a lot because so many people stay in their lanes - Plenty of problems to tackle if you're resilient to constantly hearing "no" from other teams - Well intentioned managers

Cons

- communication, what's that? - bleeding talented engineers - pretty negative culture that has become indifferent - the absence of simple key performance indicators at any level means the salary budget gets slashed (read: lay offs or no back filling) every year to maintain operations - extremely reactive work culture that is focused on small, easy to tackle issues over deeply entrenched problems that require collaboration - staff and line managers juggle way too many projects and priorities - the above point relates to this: there's a bias towards doing rather than delivering. It's better to do work on 6 things over 24 months than to finish one project in 2 months - corporate management constantly wastes personnel time on "flavor of the moment" initiatives that never result in any change, improvement, or innovation - personnel and performance management is focused on a narrow set of individuals and teams, at the expense of many others (engineering is underserved) - incredibly out of touch corporate leadership in Ohio that's stuck in management paradigms from the 90s

5.0
May 3, 2022

NEON

Recommend
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Pros

Great work environment, coworkers and location is the highlight.

Cons

Hours and location from main office. Typically results in lots of travel time.

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