Draper reviews

Management is driving the company to the ground by not bringing in contracts. People wait around with no work, even for years. The company isn't doing well financially and big changes are coming. Too often, people can be "out to get you" -- and management tends to throw people under the bus (everyone goes through it -- and it's horrible each time.) There are too many cases of bullying.

Favoritism and cronyism were rampant while I was there. They don't like outsiders. They seem to prefer people who enter the lab fresh out of grad school and stay there for their entire career over people who join mid-career, as I did. Ironically, they lose those young people due to the culture of insularity. People at all levels join and all excited about new opportunities, but they can't get an in to those opportunities and leave. I have also never seen such petty undermining and backstabbing on the way up the corporate ladder.