Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Reviews

Pros

Amazing benefits, great work/life balance with flex-time, values diversity and inclusion

Cons

location could be better, TriCities does not have a lot to offer. Promotions in science are hard without constant publications

Pros

Flexibility in the work schedule

Cons

No steady predictable workload and no clear path to promotion, it is based on friends and favorites

Pros

nice salary and good benefits

Cons

need to find work to keep oneself employed

Pros

Life-work balance，lots of fundings，supportive enviroment

Cons

Small town，no swimming pool，winter is cold

Pros

Flextime and one day a week telework option.

Cons

I have a whole list - 1. One of the absolute boring places to live - wrt nature, food, things to do, public transport. I regret moving here. 2. Very isolating work environment. You are officially part of a team but don't really work on any of the projects with those teammates. For other projects, you might or not work with other people, but there is usually a lack of appropriate team structure or communication among people who work on various aspects of a project. More "management" related meetings instead of actual technical meetings. Most of the time(sometimes weeks) goes without interacting with another human being in person. 3. They have a lot of their own old codebases, which they spend a lot of resources to maintain instead of adapting cheaper new technologies. 4. They might ask for new ideas, but don't accept them due to the ideas not being compatible with their old ways. 5. Some people can be downright rude. Another weird thing I found in this area is people heavily avoid eye contact. 6. So far I have seen 2 major types of people here - temp staff such as interns or postdocs and a lot of local people working here for considerable(a lot of them working for more than 15 years). Locals mention it's a great place to work - but forgot to mention the part about being the only professional place to work in this area. 7. Hard to get projects based on interest/capability or know what's out there even. It's more based on which project has money and you can get it to fill your time card . In OS threading terms, it's more like a thread pool where jobs are assigned to threads, instead of having dedicated threads for domain-specific things.

Pros

They offer a really good salary and health insurance package when compared to universities for a similar post.

Cons

It's located in a small town and so you don't have much to do on weekends.

Pros

Good place to do research

Cons

Funding is not stable every year

Pros

Work life balance and supports higher educational goals

Cons

Can't think of anything to complain about