Terrible management - Principal Scientist Battelle Employee Review

1.0
11 Mar 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some really great and smart people. Flex time. Decent pay.

Cons

Terrible management. Most of the managers lack significant expertise in any technical field so they are unable to make proper decisions. Some managers are abusive to their staff. It is worse than `they just don't care'. Managers only care about their bonuses. There is a complete lack of communication between managers and their staff. Project staff are expected to work at least 20 hours per week on their own time to do many non-project tasks required by management. Too many rounds of layoffs. Selection of staff to be laid off seems arbitrary and clearly leans to laying off the most experienced staff.

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