A lot of wonderful people but an bureaucratic quagmire - Principal Beamline Scientist Diamond Light Source Employee Review

Convenient Location, Good and well maintained facilities.

This place is devestating to self esteem, value, rationality or dignity. As an organisation they obliterate self image with lies, deception and trickary. Manipulation of the truth was thier primary mechanism of attack. This is supported by management, HR and to some extent even the Union representative. If you cut them in half they would say Diamond through and through.

There is the opportunity to work with brilliant people from many different backgrounds and with many different areas of expertise, all of whom are hugely enthusiastic about their work. There are many interesting challenges to work and a fair degree of freedom to work on different things. There is opportunity for public engagement, plenty of training opportunities and great facilities for scientific research.

There is a lack of leadership from management at all levels due to the frustrations between different goals within the company - are we primarily a service for users or a scientific research establishment? As a result management decisions are not always clear or well communicated.