Is Sandia National Laboratories a good company to work for?

Sandia National Laboratories has an overall rating of 4.2 out of 5, based on over 1,869 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 78% of employees would recommend working at Sandia National Laboratories to a friend and 60% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Sandia National Laboratories have been left by employees working as Student Intern , Internship and R&D Intern .

Does Sandia National Laboratories pay their employees well?

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

How satisfied are employees working at Sandia National Laboratories?

78% of Sandia National Laboratories employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Sandia National Laboratories 4.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.0 for culture and values and 3.8 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Sandia National Laboratories?

Intern (76) , Senior Member of Technical Staff (57) , Member Of Technical Staff (35) , Principal Member of Technical Staff (35) , R&D Intern (33) , Postdoctoral Appointee (29) , Intern - Hourly (28) , Mechanical Engineer (25) , Postdoctoral Researcher (24) , Manager (23) , Engineer (21) , Project Controller (20) , Systems Engineer (19) , Postdoctoral Fellow (17) , Project Manager (16)

What are the pros of working at Sandia National Laboratories according to real employee reviews?

"Great work life balance (option to take off alternating Fridays)" ((in 204 reviews)); "Great people willing to share their knowledge and actually help" ((in 174 reviews)); "Great benefits with a lot of company stability" ((in 167 reviews)); "Pay is good for amount of work and they are trying to keep up with industry." ((in 151 reviews)); "There is great job security" ((in 41 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Sandia National Laboratories according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management communication Subject to the whims of the federal budget Health care is bottom of the barrel" ((in 57 reviews)); "Very political; the managers don't know jack about technical topics." ((in 41 reviews)); "Big and very bureaucratic, amateurish upper management, some really bad managers, lots of really poorly managed projects, lots of projects that should never have been funded." ((in 14 reviews)); "Diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts are bare." ((in 9 reviews)); "Bureaucracy, office politics, location, inferior public schools, expensive private schools." ((in 9 reviews))

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4.2

78% would recommend to a friend

(1,382 total reviews)

Laura McGill

68% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

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4.5

Work/Life balance

4.1

Diversity & inclusion

4.1

Compensation and benefits

4.0

Culture & values

3.8

Career opportunities

3.3

Senior management

Sandia National Laboratories has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,382 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Sandia National Laboratories 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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4.0

May 8, 2011

Great work life balance but long painful promotion process

Tech staff

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Pros

Overall the benefits are good, while the health insurance gets worse every year they do a great job of other free health benefits like free exercise classes and other free health related activities. The people are very book smart there.

Cons

Working at Sandia is a lot like working at a University. There's a lot of research and engineering done by smart people but the different departments are terrible about working together. It's very fragmented. The raise and promotion process is terrible, whatever you do do not start at a low salary, it will take a decade to get caught up.

2.0

Apr 29, 2011

Get on your manager's good side and you can do anything. Don't, and he'll find a way to sack you

Member of technical staff

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Pros

Good pay, good benefits, and reasonable job security in some positions. You're helping national security issues and there are interesting projects going on around you

Cons

Management is pretty opaque, and doesn't offer much in the way of feedback until the end of the year. Current "federal pay freeze" means that we didn't get end-of-year bonuses, which instead went to contract (i.e. UNION) workers. Some craftsmen were making more than engineers because of the CBAs.

5.0

Mar 21, 2011

A Great Learning Experience for a summer Internship

Anonymous employee

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Pros

The management and staff were very friendly and very helpful in company integration. Projects were exciting and novel, offering a good test of experience as well as promoting intellectual growth

Cons

Being a national lab, security is always a prime issue. Some guidelines and standards seemed a bit excessive but were certainly necessary.

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