Is Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory a good company to work for?

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has an overall rating of 4.3 out of 5, based on over 2,141 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 86% of employees would recommend working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to a friend and 76% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been left by employees working as Summer Intern , Administrative Specialist and Group Leader .

Does Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory?

86% of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 4.4 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.2 for culture and values and 4.0 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory?

Mechanical Engineer (67) , Computer Scientist (63) , Postdoctoral Researcher (61) , Intern (56) , Engineer (54) , Staff Scientist (45) , Research Scientist (42) , Software Engineer (32) , Physicist (31) , Software Developer (27) , Summer Intern (25) , Scientist (21) , Administrative Specialist (17) , Project Manager (16) , Group Leader (15)

What are the pros of working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory according to real employee reviews?

"Work Life Balance is good" ((in 236 reviews)); "Great people on my team who loved being in each other's company (even played board games together during breaks)." ((in 209 reviews)); "Great benefits and 401k." ((in 166 reviews)); "Pay is good (over all maybe not so much for the area though)" ((in 97 reviews)); "3. Great Culture." ((in 57 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory according to real employee reviews?

"14, engineer is bad (I have not see a unorganized engineer team and management)." ((in 58 reviews)); "As with other reviews, it does seem like there are too many managers to just mange a few." ((in 27 reviews)); "Facilities and infrastructure are old and aging; Support systems aren't resources appropriately to support the needs of a growing laboratory; technology in non" ((in 16 reviews)); "No pension" ((in 15 reviews)); "Long hiring process so you are left in the dark" ((in 14 reviews))

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4.3

86% would recommend to a friend

(1,772 total reviews)

Kimberly S. Budil

89% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

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4.4

Work/Life balance

4.2

Culture & values

4.2

Diversity & inclusion

4.1

Compensation and benefits

4.0

Career opportunities

3.8

Senior management

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,772 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government & Public Administration industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0

Aug 21, 2008

Big science, relaxed environment, decent salary.

Computer scientist

Recommend

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Pros

Big Science. Research opportunities. Large number of different opportunities once your foot is in the door. Decent starting salary, but levels off rather quickly.

Cons

Compensation. Employee rankings. Minimum opportunity to advance.

4.0

Aug 5, 2008

Use to be the best place on earth to work.

Engineering associate

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

There are so many different types of projects to work on. You are working with the best of the best. The work is exciting and innovating and you can gain experience in several different areas if you want. It has also has a fairly good benefit package with generous time off. But that is about to change for the worse.

Cons

The contract change has really changed the atmosphere of the lab. I probably would not recommend it to new people as a great place to come and start a career. Employee morale has gone down considerably and many people no longer trust senior management. If they couldn't see many of the problems they are having with the transition when employees were asking about those same problems before the fact then how can they be trusted to lead us into the future.

3.0

Jul 25, 2008

Great place to work if you want to have great-work-life balalnce. Poor choice if you are very career-focused.

Computer scientist

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

The work-life balance is excellent, a really good choice for those with small kid or time-consuming hobbies. The pay is very competitive except at higher levels of management. Also, the ability to make career changes or explore new areas is pretty good. There is (always will be?) a "unfair" focus on Physicists and Ph.D.s (so if you are one or both of those, sign up).

Cons

Leadership is poor; these is no vision. Sadly, even if there were nothing would happen-- high risk ideas are no longer resourced. Even low-risk high payoff ideas are nickel and dimed.

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Big science, relaxed environment, decent salary.

Use to be the best place on earth to work.

Great place to work if you want to have great-work-life balalnce. Poor choice if you are very career-focused.

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