Pros
They have a cafeteria and no set work schedule.
Cons
I don’t understand how promotions work here or how jobs get filled. Why does HR insist on filling positions by hiring externally when there are so many young people working here who have been out of college for 1-5 years? I work alongside many brilliant young people, many of whom are temporary hires working on a project contract basis and once the project ends they are stuck in limbo waiting for work. The same can be said for salaried people. There is typically not a lot of available work for them to do so to make up for that and through no fault of their own, they take 8 hours to complete tasks that should normally take 2-3 hours. The part that is most disturbing is that for the most part they are minorities. Promotions rarely go to them because favoritism is rampant at Westat. People of color tend to stay in entry level positions here and once they realize that they’ve reached their full potential, they leave. I don’t blame them. How can a company that prides itself in being “diverse” be proud that a majority of its employees who are people of color stay in entry level positions for their entire tenure until they find a better job? Westat is regressing into an 80’s style upper management model where the executive leadership is comprised of middle aged white men and white women. You can’t equate gender diversity and racial diversity. They are truly NOT the same thing. You shouldn’t brag about being a majority women owned company when it’s mostly white women who make up that statistic.