SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Good people, great benefits, interesting work, incompetent senior managment."

"SLAC offers many challenges and a good compensation package to its employees! The team is supportive and professional!"

"A quasi-government entity operated by Stanford University. Most senior management completely clueless."

"Great place to learn for entry level or early career applicants. More of an academic organization that emphasize breakthrough discoveries and experiments. Culture is laid back but on time delivery is important to meet the needs of physicists experiments. Retirement, tuition assistance programs benefits are great in lieu of competitive market pay. Constructive criticism: not a place to growing an engineering career."

"A good platform for learning and research field."

"I have worked in and around SLAC for 4 years, and have great respect for the research being done there. At times, the constraints feel limiting --but it is groundbreaking research."

"Not ready to write a review ."

"No special comments. The company is overall well."

"SLAC is a wonderful place if your only interest is science. Great things are going on there in that field, however, being government funded the state of the economy drastically impacts how SLAC operates. The priority for the money is for the science and not for the infrastructure or technologies needed to keep up with the rest of the world. The lab is in need of a true leader who can lead them to compete with other science labs."

"I worked for SLAC for over 10 years. The current environment of shrinking government spending on the sciences make the continued work here difficult. Until science spending in the US increases, I would be careful about starting a career here."

"I was hired as a temporary employee, however, I have worked within this industry for over 6 years. I enjoyed the bullpen style office where I had the opportunity to meet and work alongside some of the brightest engineers in Silicon Valley if not the world. This was truly a brain game, a match of wits every day. I'll say, I've always known, that the smart ones usually have the best sense of humor."

"I've worked for SLAC National Lab for two summers and I had an amazing time. During the two summers I had 3 mentors who were very helpful and easy to get along with. The work environment is very relaxing. People here are more focused on furthering science than personal status. I've met few Nobel Prize winners and all of them introduced them self just with their first names."

What do you like about working at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory?

"The people I work with make putting up with all the rest of the nonsense worthwhile"

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

"Working at SLAC long term requires some sacrifice both wrt your career and salary. You have to believe that making the science happen is worth that sacrifice."

What don't you like about working at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory?

"The constant lack of resources to accomplish anything new is frustrating."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The lab is in huge technical debt wrt to the IT infrastructure and needs to address this by investment, not in merely shuffling deckchairs in the hope that sufficient management magic will make dwindling resources more effective."

What do you like about working at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory?

"SLAC is a great place to work if you enjoy working with/for smart challenging people. The science is world class and you get a chance to work with some unique resources."

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

"SLAC is not a place for the prima donna; you'll need to get a long well with the group and be able to deal with some cruft to fit in there."

What don't you like about working at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory?

"Getting your money from the Federal government comes with a lot of strings and the constant pinch for resources makes change difficult. This struggle for resources has drastically affected the IT environment. It is a classic case of the cobbler's children."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They should spend some time understanding the concept of technical debt and evaulating exactly how far behind the IT infrastructure has gotten."

"Top-level scientific laboratory. Smart and highly educated people."

What do you like about working at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory?

"Smart and highly educated colleagues. Pleasant work environment. Access to the latest technologies. Flexible work hours."

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

"Remember that you are applying for a position in a scientific laboratory. So express your interest in science. And be open-minded."

What don't you like about working at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory?

"Compensation is not at a competitive level. It's too far from my home. My commute time is too long."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I really have no suggestions. Perhaps consider making competitive salaries."