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      3.6

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (245 total reviews)
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      Andy Page

      62% approve of CEO

      36% positive business outlook

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      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Culture & values

      3.1

      Senior management

      ORAU has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 245 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ORAU employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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      245 reviews
      1.0
      Jun 17, 2019

      All talk no bite. good place to sleep.

      It specialist
      Recommend
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      Pros

      sleeping is possible most of the time. lots of meetings to waist your time in.

      Cons

      Years go by and your soul slowly leaves you as you realize you should have moved and didn't. Slow death, no progress government funded funnel with no real purpose.

      3.0
      Jun 28, 2016

      Generally pleasant

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Employees are quite knowledgeable and forthcoming, as well as friendly. This is a well-educated, experienced bunch of people. ORISE does great work in the placement of young, recently-graduated M.S. and Ph.D. degreed people in research positions that will advance their careers. Pay is good. Diversity is the name of the game. As an example, ORAU sets itself apart from the private sector as one of the few organizations left that does not practice covert age discrimination in the hiring process.

      Cons

      Upper management is primarily comprised of baby-boomer lifers, who in the salient words of Douglas Coupland, are “rusting above” everyone else. Not only is there obfuscation of business motives by the “power mist,” there is also the rather dysfunctional administration support (namely the cumbersome HR fiefdom), groaning with resistance to implementation of 21st century business management practices which would slash the bloated overhead. The end result is wasteful duplication of effort and the inefficient use of valuable talent at the organization’s fingertips – as everyone desperately protects their little shred of turf from the appearance of irrelevancy.

      2.0
      Nov 9, 2014

      Wasted potential

      Program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Ample parking. Free coffee. Excellent working environment. Plenty of opportunity to watch movies and videos during the work day.

      Cons

      Independent thought/thinkers not encouraged. Decisions made in a vacuum on the 4th floor. Many managers are not qualified to rule over others. Rampant sycophancy. HR resembles Pyongyang, but with slightly brighter clothes.. Straight answers appear to be against policy.

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