Great work-life balance and meaningful projects - Senior Computer Scientist Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Employee Review

5.0
Sep 9, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Work-life balance is excellent, management is flexible, mission focus means work is meaningful. Response to Covid-19 has been excellent and supportive.

Cons

Big lab, things change slowly, especially when reacting to fast-changing outside world, so you have to be persistent and apply the broken-record approach to get management to move in new directions. However, I've been here many years and have seen many positive improvements in uptake of technologies, stance towards open source software and other aspects related to software development and engineering.

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5.0
Jul 22, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great benefits, stimulating environment to learn and grow scientific career. Great work-life balance: those who do work a bit more are insulated enough that there isn't endemic pressure to follow suit.

Cons

There could be better incentive structures for research output or getting funding. Monetary, for instance.

5.0
Jul 18, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good work life balance. Always something different to learn or do. Good coworkers who truly want to do the best work they can.

Cons

The matrixing employee setup can lead to unsatisfied employees when they cannot influence changes in behavior for employees that are matrixed to them. There isn't always alignment from both managers on what is acceptable.

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