Fermilab reviews

Communication between Sectors, Departments and Groups can be rather problematic. Too many islands. Too much budget tension from year to year. Despite being employed by Fermi Research Alliance, the purse strings are held by the US Department of Energy Office of Science (thus DoE...thus Congress) Salary freezes and furloughs do occur when Congress refuses to function. It seems that Cronyism runs rampant in the (shallow) ranks of Management. There is a lot of dead wood which should purged. There are MANY working groups which tends to make the Management structure more broad than deep. The problem is that a non-physicist has a difficult time moving up the rather short ladder.

Government contractor, raises are low and not negotiable