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Liberty Science Center reviews

2.9

35% would recommend to a friend

(109 total reviews)

Paul Hoffman

49% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

Liberty Science Center has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 109 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Liberty Science Center employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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109 reviews
3.0
May 28, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Not too hard Great people to work with it Always doing something

Cons

Management sucks! Office politics is heavily prevalent in LSC work culture. HR has more complaints against them than anyone in the science center. The pay isn't great.. $10.55 is nothing if you have bills. Growth does not exist unless you are a brown nose.

2.0
Apr 7, 2019

Going Downhill

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Your closest co-workers are your friends. You'll need them when times get tough. The pay is OK and the atmosphere outside of the admin office can be nice. There are so many people that are a pleasure to work with.

Cons

While the pay is OK, many education staff are overworked and get ZERO overtime. Some full timers are hourly and get overtime, while the majority don't. This is possibly illegal, but LSC is getting away with it. As others have said, the hours can be late into the night sometimes and every day during busy periods. There are downright rude, obnoxious and completely unprofessional managers and directors. They get away with it regularly. Complaints to the talent office, lsc's wacky version of HR, go without anything being done. They pick sides and decide who they want to believe and staff wind up either fired or fed up and quit. The CEO only listens to the advice from a select few, so a very toxic work environment has developed. This mix includes little groups in some departments that make many people miserable with their constant demands. Internal politics and divisions just make it more toxic. New staff have to be told who to watch out for and who not to tick off, because certain mid level management are known to complain all the time and get people into trouble. There are so many people looking for other work it's not even funny. All you need to do is look at the job offerings and you can see the revolving door in many positions. It didn't used to be this bad but now it is.

2.0
Jun 30, 2017

Negative Experience

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Somewhat flexible scheduling, very basic tasks that require pretty standard social skills. Makes it easy to stay in school and juggle multiple commitments. You don't need to have a field of study in science to work here.

Cons

A lot of caring people in admin either left or moved on, and the gaps left were filled with people who have zero compassion or empathy for the associates who work the floors. Often managers (we call them coordinators) side with rude and downright offensive guests. They often walk around the exhibits and micromanage to the point where the environment is so hostile and toxic, the anxiety and stress bled into my personal and school life. HR was very unhelpful with several of the issues I had at Liberty Science Center, and often a lot of what was said in HR was not kept 100% confidential. If you can put up with abusive guests and uncaring managers, it's a pretty steady job, though the pay isn't very impressive. The entire place is run down, extremely unprofessional, and not educational in the sciences at all.

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