Battelle reviews

3.6

55% would recommend to a friend

(994 total reviews)
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54% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Battelle has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 994 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Battelle 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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2.0
Apr 27, 2014

Great ideas, bad execution

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Pros

The best thing about this place is that you will never get bored. The work is always exciting and changing and you are always doing something new. Pay is average. Will learn how to make your own business.

Cons

Battelle expects you to bring in your own business and do your work too. If you cannot find work for yourself to keep busy, you should be job hunting. It makes you wonder what the advantage if working at battle is. Some managers will help their employees find work. Others will say that it is up to the employee to do that. Managers are praised over engineers. Engineers are told they need to bring in business. In order to go anywhere at the company you must bring in money. However you will be penalized if you spend time on proposals. Not sure if anyone has realized this paradox. Management is very inconsistent. Some managers are great and would offer to help you while you are stuck here over the weekend. Others laugh at the idea of working till 5 on a Friday. Pay is almost exactly average, and raises are pretty minimal. No chance of bonuses unless you are senior.

4.0
Apr 25, 2014

A very mixed bag

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Pros

First class people, clean environment, invigorating innovative atmosphere, challenging work

Cons

Since Jeff Wadsworth assumed leadership about 6 years ago he has totally trashed its historic culture, discarded all the ideals that made Battelle great, and remolded Battelle into "just another ordinary big company" that is run more by bean counters than by visionaries. He has discarded Battelle's former focus on the long term and has replaced it with a beancounter's (or freshly minted MBA's) fixation on the near term; now Battelle hires and fires practically on a project basis; it has been, and still is, discarding scores of people with deep knowledge and experience that would be practically irreplaceable in many difficult new projects....... all in the interests of keeping an attractive short term financial balance sheet. The unique pride that employees once had in the Institute have been lost along with morale. Sad.

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