Don’t walk, run! Hostile, toxic, sweatshop with zero care or concern for employees. - Procurement Agent Fermilab Employee Review

1.0
26 Jun 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The buffalo and hiking trails.

Cons

The lab use to be a decent place to work, however, has steadily declined the last 5 years. What use to be a place where coworkers were like family and good friends, has turned into an unbearable place to work. There’s an uptick in turnover due to the incompetence of senior managers. The lab is so dysfunctional, chaotic and toxic most people on the outside would be dumbfounded if they spent a week here.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
30 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

It is a place with strong potential, good technical infrastructure, and a beautiful natural setting. It offers a diverse mix of people and professions, and it typically provides more stability and flexibility than industry, along with a fair salary.

Cons

Professionals outside the physics discipline are often not given full recognition as subject-matter experts in their own fields and are frequently overridden by individuals in senior or privileged positions. In many cases, decisions are driven more by influence, convenience, or personal preference than by operational needs or technical best practices. As a result, non-physicist professionals may be relegated to routine or less desirable tasks, while higher-visibility projects and decision-making responsibilities are concentrated elsewhere. Basicaly non-physicist professionals are hired to support or maintain systems that were implemented without sufficient planning or domain expertise, leaving significant room for improvement. This dynamic can lead to underutilization of specialized talent, reduced efficiency, operational challenges, frustration among staff, and, over time, burnout. Definitively not a good place to work for non-physicist professionals. NOTE: The actual CEO is Norbert Holtkamp

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