Berkeley Lab Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is one of the top research institutions in the world which has produced a number of Nobel prize winners. It is a wonderful place to learn and grow your skills. I am utmost grateful for my experiences in the lab."

"I am visiting my current company since 11 months. It is overall a good place to work with lots of exciting science happening. As with the National Labs, there is a lot of bureaucracy."

"I’ve been working in lbnl for almost 1 year. Culture and management is great. People are kind and helpful to each other. Transparency and open door policy for management. People are getting feedbacks they need to learn and improve."

"I've worked for Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory for 6 months. The laboratory conducts cutting-edge nuclear science research and the people and organizations all have strong ethics and principles. The laboratory employs nearly 4000 employees, students, and post-doc researchers."

"It's a nice place to do research."

"It gave me an excellent experiment to work on with my colleagues. I assisted the researchers in calculating the portions of materials and making chemical solutions."

"My work was using Ruby on Rails to build a website which can organize medical images. The website has different user level, such as downloader, uploader and administrator. For different user level, the permission is different. The feature for this website is that, it allows uploader or administrator to upload a very huge file (more than 50GB) to server. We split this kind of files to different chunks. Then, we send these chunks from browser to server."

"Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory is a great place to work. Everyone has different backgrounds and education, and you feel more educated just walking around talking to people."

"I have an M.B.A. with 10 years of experience in leadership including project management, logistics, asset management and financial analysis."

"At its best, LBL embodies everything positive about academic science: brilliant co-workers, intellectual freedom, experimentation, and being on the leading edge of a field. At its worst, it embodies most of the negative stereotypes too, but at least it's an improvement over university labs."

"I have been a postdoctoral research fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) for three years. In this time I have collaborated and discussed with experts in diverse fields, and co-authored papers on a range of topics. I have also had lots of opportunity to travel and represent our group internationally. I have learnt a great deal in three years and I wholeheartedly recommend LBNL as a postdoctoral destination."

"I worked at LBL for 2 years as a postdoc. I found the environment was not suitable for me in terms of research, publications and advancement."

"It was a great internship at national laboratory."

What do you like about working at Berkeley Lab?

"It was a national laboratory, and I got the internship there during my study"

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

"be flexible to relocate. Willing to relocate to the bay area"

What don't you like about working at Berkeley Lab?

"I had to relocate for the time having the internship to Berkeley"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management was very nice, and interactive. Probably more time for new workers to meet and greet"

"My work is innovative, creative, and relaxed."

What do you like about working at Berkeley Lab?

"I have complete project and scheduling freedom, and benefit from the motivating, hard working culture."

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

"Be honest with your direction of interest in pursuing a research project."

What don't you like about working at Berkeley Lab?

"The salary is minimal, and makes it tough to get buy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The UC system requires a major overhaul to provide fair and expedient management to its departments."