1.0
Jan 4, 2013
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 5 years
Menlo Park, CA
Recommend
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Pros
SLAC does amazing science that truly has the potential to make the world a better place. The engineering feats they have accomplished, while decades old now, are still awe-inspiring.
Cons
SLAC, and especially LCLS is necessarily a factory where the product changes at least twice a day. Unfortunately, the place is not managed nearly as well as a modern factory would be. IT is worse than a joke. Business practices and engineering workflows are decades behind the times. The running joke in the hallway is "this conversation requires a charge number."