Nice colleagues, tight office spaces - Postdoctoral Fellow EMBL Employee Review

The remote campus sometimes makes EMBL feel a bit disconnected from Heidelberg itself. The number of people working at EMBL grows substantially faster than the number of offices, so offices spaces are really tight. There is substantial discrimination between staff and (both PhD and postdoctoral) fellows w.r.t. to how the salaries are inflation adjusted. Part of the social life is a strong party culture (e.g., and Oktoberfest), which I personally found a bit out of place in Autumn 2022.