RTI International Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Cons

Middle of the road compensation and benefits.

Cons

In IT, there are only 1 or 2 SME's per silo. They will not hesitate to call you on your day off or on your family vacation to Disney. They talk a lot about work/life balance but they don't seem to mean it.

Cons

Due to non-profit status, no budget for birthdays, funeral expenses. Manager must spend their own.

Cons

Older company set in its' ways. Cliquish. Not a lot of work so what's available is fought over so that you can appear productive.

Cons

The push for work/life balance is in full effect here but very difficult to achieve in the IT roles.

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Even though they are a not-for-profit organization, research and innovation is driven by profitability which tends to curb the potential for innovation. It is a very top heavy organization which introduces challenges to stay cost competitive on project proposals. Amount of government funded work makes them vulnerable in the current economy.

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If you are not some one who enjoys fast paced startup culture, this is not a place for you.

Cons

Many salaries are lower than for-profit equivalents, even though RTI is a large corporate-style environment. Some of the staff who have stayed for decades are not challenged to fully engage in innovative technical work or leadership (to be fair, many do a great job of this). Untrained staff in upper-mid career stages are pushed into project management with paltry training, much less than they need to avoid stressful situations and manage client expectations properly. Inconsistent culture across the institute leads to poor communication and collaboration between departments. Time accounting policy hamstrings staff into the daily grind and inhibits spontaneity, especially among younger staff who are pressured to spend as much time as possible on sold projects. This makes the culture dominated by older staff, who are worn out by the demands of juggling staff management, project management, technical leadership, hiring and trying to stand out. The executive staff do not make enough effort to meet and listen to junior or mid level staff, making those on the front lines feel disconnected from the corporate core. Very little diversity among senior leadership and the RTI board of governors. Efforts to improve communication and collaboration across the institute feel awkward and inconclusive, but this is likely due to their infancy. More efforts should be made to fuel passion among technical staff for positively affecting the world through RTI's contracts, and encourage deep business-level knowledge at all levels. Some clients are extremely demanding yet waste immense amounts of resources, but are lucrative to RTI for this very reason...RTI sells labor, so difficult clients with deep pockets cause a lot of stress for years.

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The communication among the divisions is atrocious. If you like working in an environment where you are constantly reinventing the wheel this is the place for you. The organization has it's hands in so many pots it is difficult to find any synergy across the entire organization. This company is mostly if not totally government work.

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many works are repetitions, at least in my division