54 Battelle Reviews

"I was with Battelle for over 21 years. Always challenged and well compensated for my efforts. Not many opportunities to advance. The company is somewhat top-heavy. Also, Battelle is not an agile company. Old companies usually do things slower and more conservatively. Battelle is a perfect example of that. Great benefits. Better than most. Good work environment and the people are great."

"I worked at Battelle for ten years. My location was remote from company headquarters and part of a specific contract. Although there were several hundred employees at the project site, there was minimal corporate presence for human resources and benefits during the majority of the project. Very little was done to retain employees from this project after it was completed. Otherwise, employees were treated fairly and compensated well."

"Great company. Fantastic benefits. Highly recommend Battelle Memorial Institute."

"I worked for Battelle for 13.35 years. The company was at the forefront in the modernizing of subsystems and applications for a variety of clients, in some cases, advancing the technology by 40 years. Other areas of research and development are in the physical sciences and data flow studies. There are about 2000 employees at the Columbus campus."

"I have worked for Battelle for 10 years. It used to be a great place to work but recently cutbacks in benefits and stricter regulations have made it a stressful environment."

"This is the worst company that I have worked for in almost 30 years of being in the nuclear materials industry. When they took over the contract from Argonne in 2005, it went from being able to do productive research, to being stalled in a bureaucracy that retarded productivity, creativity, safety and innovation. When these management changes caused safety issues that shut the facilities down and drove costs up to the point that major long time customers took there work elsewhere. Management blamed the employees and called them incompetent and negligent. Then they laid off or fired anyone that ever questioned their management."

"I worked there for three years. It was great! I got to move around onto several different projects, learned a lot, and contributed a lot to the research. After 3 years I was laid off due to government cutbacks and I wanted to go back to school for my PhD anyway."

What do you like about working at Battelle?

"Technically interesting work, with a good deal of autonomy, but that is about it"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't do it unless you have an in with upper management"

What don't you like about working at Battelle?

"Benefits being stripped, firings and layoffs creating an environment of fear"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop intimidating the workforce with autocratic management, and get rid of Catalyst"

"Best job ever. The pay was the best and the people were awesome."

What do you like about working at Battelle?

"The people were very friendly, professional and helpful. It was the best job and the best paying job I ever had."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepared for an interview that lasts for several hours with different groups of people. In the IT group, I had to prepare a 30-minute PowerPoint presentation on a prior project."

What don't you like about working at Battelle?

"The fact that they do so much work for the government makes it painful when budgets contract and people get laid off."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Maybe management should be pared down during layoffs also, not just the rank and file."

"Great people to work with so the atmosphere was very good."

What don't you like about working at Battelle?

"Our division was not part of the main focus of the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Try to equally include all of the divisions of the company."

What do you like about working at Battelle?

"We had a very clean, safe, rewarding, and uplifting company."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It is important to show skills, knowledge, cleanliness, and be warm, considerate and confident."

What don't you like about working at Battelle?

"I have to communte using priviate car or I had to ride a bus 140 miles daily"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Maintain good communication with employees and show that you care about them."

"It was an excellent experience learning about the nuclear industry."

What do you like about working at Battelle?

"The people were very nice and I built great friendships with them."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Beware; when cutbacks are on the horizon it is difficult to get work done because no one wants to make a mistake during a reduction in force."

What don't you like about working at Battelle?

"The politics with upper management was difficult to navigate and the company touted a certain culture but did not live by it themselves."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get to know your people working where the rubber meets the road and you will find out more of what is going on."

"place to start of a long science career."

What do you like about working at Battelle?

"I loved he challenges and the diversity of the work and I benefited greatly from the multidisciplinary culture of the company."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"network, network and network again, listen before you talk, enjoy every contract and share your knowledge wisely."

What don't you like about working at Battelle?

"short term contracts can create too much stress and become counter productive"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"hire more Indians (49%) than chiefs (51%) and chose talent before strategic."

What do you like about working at Battelle?

"It was a great environment where I learned a lot."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I would only advise people to be themselves. That is all."

What don't you like about working at Battelle?

"my job wasn't really what I aspire to do in life"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I don't have any suggestions for the management. They were fine."

"Great work experience"

What do you like about working at Battelle?

"The importance of the research and it's contribution to human health"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"find out details about future and longevity of job and future."

What don't you like about working at Battelle?

"Some employess lack of integrity,some politics involved. Feeling like a number and the lack of caring by CEO's far away.."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"more involvement in providing opportunities for advancement.. Inform employees more of the things going on that affect our jobs.."