Pros
Flexible Hours Great Health Insurance private office space/Cubicle Work with academic peers and not just people with little academic background who have experience. Management was very respectful Work although generally boring, could be challenging when deadlines came around wonderful coworkers nice campus You could look for projects within westat that you would like to work in End of year Party was great. Birthday celebrations were great. Casual Atmosphere And to mention it again, Dignifying
Cons
The Pay compared to other places of comparable work and workload was horrid. It was the job I made the least salary in, but the Benefits package was highly generous. It was painful to see that they consistently hired people from outside, when there were very few people not working a Westat office job (if any) with a degree less than A Bachelors degree. Yet they hired people of equal or even less competence from outside. Pay increase was very low.
