National Renewable Energy Lab Reviews

- Communication is highly segregrated and more than half of the staff rely on research funding awarded to scientists so you're essentially pitching work constantly to maintain your billability. -Little-to-no growth to learn new skills or network outside of the lab or Department of Energy. - Trump administration deciminated funding and changed the entire mission of the lab so it's no longer focused on fighting climate change

Funding is reliant on Congressional whims, and with current administration's aversion to anything renewable, sustainable, or strategic, the risk of layoffs is very high. Leadership team is mostly senior researchers who have peaked but still want to do research and are not effective "business" managers. Communication from LT to staff is pretty much one-way and not always transparent. Typical bottlenecks in getting LT attention. LT expresses interest in operating more efficiently but does not devote real resources to supporting that objective. Silos between business management systems persist. Risk management model is immature (projects, systems, institutional) and most decisions seem to be made based on intuition rather than data. Some progress on diversity representation in management but it's been very slow.