Brookhaven National Laboratory reviews

However, the lab is dead. The facilities are old. They have a hard time attracting people and all postdocs I know working there ended up unemployed. There is no future for any postdoc inside the lab, and if you hear the contrary is probably a lie. They mostly hire people from the outside. The brand of the lab is not relevant; the scientist even when they are good in their fields will not move a finger to help their postdoc move up or get jobs anywhere. My experience there was very discouraging. You can feel the death smell in the air. If you go for an interview and they offer you a job, just say no, as many other did

Lack of an environment to encourage creative researches