Battelle reviews

Manager blatantly discriminated against team members who were not up to his ethical and moral code. Think evangelical Baptist. Made the comment that he wished he could ask people about their Christianity in an interview so that he could only hire devout Christians. And then proceeded to bully those he did not consider Christian enough by intentionally leaving them off meetings, emails, invites for lunches and other after work events. For over two years. He only got the job because so many were laid off or took a voluntary separation at their 14th attempt to get the company on its feet. Which they still haven't.

Management in general operates in a panic-reactionary mode. Battelle has a long history of promoting scientists to management levels as the next step in their "career" without the requisite for management capabilities- leading to less than capable managment. To add to this, there has been no clear management strategy in recent years. I've been at Battelle for just over 6 years. In that time, we've had 3 re-organizations, 2 CEOs, 3 CFOs, 3 layoffs, and countless changes in mid-level management. The current management group is working to create a leaner company and a business portfolio mirroring traditional defense contractors like Leidos. Management decisions are made in silos and then rolled out to the company without consideration of the day to day impact. Such changes have recently caused somewhat of an exodus of staff.