Battelle used to be a great place to work, but those days are in the rear view mirror.
Pros
In general, interesting projects. Compensation and benefits seem to be ok. The move to PTO seems to have been industry-wide.
Cons
Too many good 'ol boy circles. No goodies for anyone outside those circles. Excessive layers of management at Battelle. The re-worked benefits package was definitely discouraging. The PTO system really penalized everyone. If abuse was the issue, deal with the abuse, don't penalize everyone. That's management failure. The organization doesn't seem to realize that people with their ideas and innovations are the engine that propels Battelle. Instead, people are viewed as resources. Instead of laying off scientists and engineers, reorganize, retrain, reassign those people. Eliminate the blotted layers of management and useless staffers instead. Battelle seems to have forgotten how to innovate. I keep hearing about how Battelle invented the Xerox process. I think that was 50 years ago. What has Battelle done since? Battelle has been living off of federal government funding for so long, I don't know what will happen now with federal funding drying up. I don't think Battelle has the ability to compete in industrial R&D anymore. Research has become very rigid and inflexible, requiring multiple management sign-offs for even the most insignificant changes. Battelle's motto, "The Business of Innovation", doesn't seem to apply any more.