"Very tedious and unfullfilling"
What do you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"Get to work on some very high tech cutting edge equipment."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Be sure this is the place for you if you work there.Very unfullfiling lots of things dont make sense."
What don't you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"Very tedious lots of rules and regulations to the point of hindering performance. Intitiative is frowned upon."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Less paper work more ability for workers to do the job."
"Physical work environment can be difficult and the worry over yearly budget can be stressful. I do get a long well with my managers and co-workers and programming for a living is a dream job."
"Good company, but getting hired is difficult."
What do you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"That I get to be creative and learn a lot. I have added new skills to my repertoire over time."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"It is a high pressure environment as funding is scarce at the moment (2012) and it is an environment in which you have to keep learning new stuff because it does not just fund similar work or continuation of a project."
What don't you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"The amount of pressure and the work-life balance. I have stopped having any hobbues."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"If I were my own boss, I would be less demanding and tough and I would work towards creating an environment to get the best out of me."
"LANL is a place that suggests good salaries, but if money is not obtained up front, there is little room for forward progression in the way of upward mobility, and the yearly raises are low. the company average is about 1% to 2% of salary in the way of raises, which is less than cost of living increase. LANL has a continuing problem of not following its own procedures related to human resources and conflict management."
What do you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"almost nothing is expected of anyone and I can leave my work at the door at the end of the day"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Don't bother, continue your job search elsewhere. Or take the job and immediately start working on your exit strategy while enjoying the income"
What don't you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"We have a reasonable amount of responsibility, but almost no authority, and when we do make decisions they are as likely as not to be overridden"
What suggestions do you have for management?
"a more forward looking emphasis and instill a greater sense of ownership"
What do you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"They where honest and told me they didn't know what needed to be done or how to do it. They gave me an old guide on what they thought needed to be done and I was left alone to do what I needed to do. It allowed me to get it done quickly and correctly."
What do you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"While I was interning at LANL, I got to work with incredibly intelligent, dedicated people doing work that I loved. It was intellectually stimulating, and I had the support necessary to do complicated tasks."
What don't you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"Los Alamos is a small community located in the middle of nowhere. (It was chosen intentionally for its isolation. It's almost an hour to the nearest Walmart!) Many people, myself included, have trouble adjusting to that."
"If you have the opportunity, give LANL a try."
What do you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"The technical challenges are extraordinary and the facilities are top-notch."
What don't you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"The administration of work is burdensome and the senior management is weak."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Start working for the employee and stop lumping addition administrative responsibilities on them."
What do you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"The research and the collaborators."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Avoid working for the library at all cost."
What don't you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"Huge government waste. If you like to see money burn, this is the place to work."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Need to implement accountability."
"Dont work here"
What do you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"The pay and benefits."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Don't do it"
What don't you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"the management"
What do you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"being at a government facility"
What don't you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"not a very consistent tenure"
What suggestions do you have for management?
"need better educated management"
"Great place to work"
What do you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"Bosses were great and the enviroment to work at was great."
What don't you like about working at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
"There is little feedback from mentors."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Better fedback on tasks completed"
Los Alamos National Laboratory has an overall rating of 4.0 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 38 Los Alamos National Laboratory Review Ratings left anonymously by Los Alamos National Laboratory employees, which is 3% higher than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 97% of employees would recommend working at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Los Alamos National Laboratory employees earn $75,000 annually on average, or $36 per hour, which is 14% higher than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 11 Los Alamos National Laboratory employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find Los Alamos National Laboratory Salaries by Job Title.
97% of employees would recommend working at Los Alamos National Laboratory with the overall rating of 4.0 out of 5. Employees also rated Los Alamos National Laboratory 3.8 out of 5 for Company Culture, 4.0 for Rewards You Receive, 3.5 for Growth Opportunities and 4.1 for support you get.
According to our data, the highest paying job at Los Alamos National Laboratory is a CIO at $196,000 annually. Browse Los Alamos National Laboratory Salaries by Job Profile.
According to our data, the lowest paying job at Los Alamos National Laboratory is a Professor at $30,000 annually. Browse Los Alamos National Laboratory Salaries by Job Profile.
According to reviews on CareerBliss, employees commonly rated the pros of working at Los Alamos National Laboratory to be Company Culture, Growth Opportunities, People You Work With and Person You Work For, and no cons.
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