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      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory reviews

      4.0

      71% would recommend to a friend

      (317 total reviews)

      John Sarrao

      71% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

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      SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 317 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government & Public Administration industry (3.6 stars).

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      317 reviews
      3.0
      Feb 9, 2013

      Doing good work with good people but bad management

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Fun work advancing human knowledge, working with smart people on hard problems is always rewarding.

      Cons

      Both academic and government bureaucracies stifle innovation, and upper management is often not concerned with what is actually happening on the ground.

      1.0
      Jan 4, 2013

      Broken culture

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      SLAC does amazing science that truly has the potential to make the world a better place. The engineering feats they have accomplished, while decades old now, are still awe-inspiring.

      Cons

      SLAC, and especially LCLS is necessarily a factory where the product changes at least twice a day. Unfortunately, the place is not managed nearly as well as a modern factory would be. IT is worse than a joke. Business practices and engineering workflows are decades behind the times. The running joke in the hallway is "this conversation requires a charge number."

      1.0
      Dec 1, 2012

      Used to be a very creative, exciting place: now the simple-minded bureaucrats have taken over.

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      Pros

      You're a Stanford University employee, with all the benefits that entails. If you work in a science area, you can do exciting, leading-edge research with very bright people.

      Cons

      Heaven help you if you don't work on scientific research: you'll be hounded by bureaucrats who don't like any idea that hasn't originated with them, don't know how to collaborate, have no interest in or appreciation of the lab's research, and aren't interested in two-way communication, only in giving orders. The new Director has his work cut out for him.

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