Complex work, meaningful work, need better management - Senior Product Designer Battelle Employee Review

2.0
Apr 10, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Great coworkers that are willing to help and teach you the ropes.

Cons

Management believes that more management is the answer. Management will pass on their responsibilities to the staff beneath them rather than perform the tasks themselves. Management says that they "empower staff" but don't. Limited growth opportunities. "If you want a promotion, you need to do the work of the job//position that you want."

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5.0
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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

They pay my salary on time.

Cons

-They are run like grad school. They have you compete against your co-workers for funding, they consider rules and laws as simple impediments to be overcome by capricious edicts, they will treat you like a rented mule if you let them. I have come to the conclusion that senior management cares very little about work conditions or employees, only about the bottom line. This experience has significantly changed my opinion of not-for-profit companies. If you are a researcher looking for an open and collaborative environment with shared goals, I suggest you look elsewhere.

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