Pros
Benefits are pretty good. They have a good starting wage for this area. Plenty of diverse jobs to chose from. They willing to train people for jobs they don't currently have skills for and they do a pretty good job training. Ability to work for the same company and work in different career paths if you find yourself bored with your current assignment.
Cons
Long term employees get put on the back burner. New employees have recently been given the opportunity to get early promotions making it easy to get up to a good pay level. However employees that have been here for a long period of time have no such opportunities and had no such programs during their early days. Promoting people less then a year in, making the same pay as people who have been at the lab for 10, 15 or even longer, who are doing the same job , this is not a good way to encourage people to dedicate time to stay with the company and refine their skills. Micromanagement is a huge deal. Our lower level supervisors have little control over their own areas due to senior management overreach. Our supervisors seem to be there just to convey messages from senior management and to take the blame when things go wrong. We depend on them to help guide us but they cant do so when they are being misdirected from management that has never seen the work they are trying to control. Accountability! this is a new focus so things don't get done wrong here. Management is always talking about how employees need to be held accountable for their actions. Here I totally agree with them, all employees should be held accountable, however this seems to exclude senior management. Jobs management used to have to do recently have been tossed down to already over worked supervisors. We are also have a huge problem with having a lot of technical work that requires attention to detail and not enough people to keep these tasks from getting out of control. The Lab should also sounds like it should have some awesome technology , that's far from the truth. Although there is some advanced tech in the labs, our operations rooms have some aging equipment that is always breaking down. We have tons of work with very little workers and duct-taped machinery to do it with. Sometimes it feels like we are expected to drive a formula 1 race with a rusty old hatchback from the seventies and the pit crew and driver are all one guy.
