Physical Sciences reviews

The company is poorly managed by some people who have never taken business courses or worked elsewhere. Their business model is to obtain government grants, develop a technology, and license the IP. Their 'products' are very limited and specialized for government as the end-user. They have no interest in production for a commercial market through a pilot plant. High overhead rate for type and size of company. Not good for scientists. Consider them to be a perpetual start-up with increasing competition from university spin-offs.

Lots of pressure to write winning proposals to keep yourself (and your managers) billable. Staff without Ph.D.'s are generally not going to be promoted and must either stay as technical support forever or leave. There is no coordination between divisions, people cross compete with clients. Management would rather let the client decide that a proposal is worthless than tell an investigator to not write it. Many proposals and reports are written on your own time to get around billable hours limits.