-Leadership, in my experience, is condescending and will belittle you, even if you are a subject matter expert in a particular field or technology.
-Junior staff don't feel supported enough to speak up, and are afraid of retaliation for escalating issues in good faith.
-Salaries have stagnated and are lagging behind competitive rates for the area for candidates coming in with prior experience
-Burn out is not taken seriously, and in my experience you pay a 'penalty' with missed opportunities if you prioritize your mental health over the job.
-Leadership runs the lab like an academic institution and fails to acknowledge the value of people with industry experience. Myopic view of education vs. experience.
-Leadership gets promoted at a much faster rate than that of their direct reports. The work that junior staff do are not rewarded appropriately and people are leaving as a result.
-Generally, I've found the environment very toxic and problematic. The management team needs to be retrained on how they interact with their direct reports and treat those under them with respect and dignity. There is a lot of language thrown around that is passive aggressive, condescending, and teetering on what I would all inappropriate.
-I've found my experience with HR to be unhelpful, and it's clear they don't take issues seriously enough, and their investigations to good-faith escalations of concerns to be lacking in execution and thoroughness.
