45 Staff Scientist Reviews
Staff Scientists give their job an average rating of 3.9 out of 5.0. The Staff Scientists happiest with their jobs are employed by Washington University with an average rating of 4.8 while the Staff Scientists least happy with their jobs work for ATC Associates with an average rating of 2.2.
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Please give us a one liner to describe this review.
"slightly better than being unemployed"
What do you like about working at ATC Associates?
"There are some hard wrking, honest decent people working there. It is always great to be able to work with them."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"would suggest that you keep looking.There are good reasons staff morale is extremely low"
What don't you like about working at ATC Associates?
"No chance for advancement or job or professional growth. wherre you start is where you will stay. This company has had a wage freeze for years yet senior project managers have received increasing bonuses. The health insurance is a joke, you would do better on the open market"
What suggestions do you have for management?
"You are nothing without your employees all of them (field staff and lower level people count too)."
What do you like about working at Washington University?
"I enjoy doing organic synthesis. I got an excellent scientist as supervisor."
What don't you like about working at Washington University?
"The grant is running out. It is about time to leave"
What do you like about working at Applied Research Associates?
"People I work with are nice, I receive good pay, benefits, and independence in my projects."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Be prepared to have your skill set stagnate, as there are few opportunities to increase your skill set."
What don't you like about working at Applied Research Associates?
"Limited in what I can do, would like to push my career set forward, but held back by the company."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Invest more into research and new technologies to grow the company. Allow the smart people they hired to push the company forward."
What do you like about working at Nalco Holding?
"Nalco had a wide variety or people, processes, and products. There were many opportunities to learn new things."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Each department and manager has unique needs. Be positive and to look for opportunities to both learn and to help others."
What don't you like about working at Nalco Holding?
"After several successive sales of the company, a lot o fop talent left, and the remaining workers were not valued, and became demotivated."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Convert the highest volume processes from batch to continuous processes."
What do you like about working at ATC Associates?
"It is a job and is better than unemployment benefits."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"If anything else is available at another company take it unless you are being hired in as a senior project manager. If you are a senior project manager you can work from home', you can take credit for all jobs well done and blame staff for every mistake, you will get bonuses while everyone else goes without raises for years. you will get to manage om5-1.0 person and describe how hard your job is. As a project manager you can come to work after the field staff and you can leave long before the field staff is finished.If you are a field or staff scientist find a place to work where you will be appreciated, rewarded and have a chance to advance"
What don't you like about working at ATC Associates?
"A lot a senior managers that do everything differently managing very few people. there are more managers than workers."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Value all levels of employees, instead of rewarding senior project managers for the work others do"
Please give us a one liner to describe this review.
"Science requires the same critical thinking as engineering, but the culture is completely different."
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