Great work-life balance, but leadership and pay issues - Manager Sandia National Laboratories Employee Review

Users say... "Great work life balance (option to take off alternating Fridays)" "Great people willing to share their knowledge and actually help" "The benefits are great!" "Pay is good for amount of work and they are trying to keep up with industry." "There is great job security" 

Users say... "Poor management communication Subject to the whims of the federal budget Health care is bottom of the barrel" "Very political; the managers don't know jack about technical topics." "Salary is low for California" "Bonuses are very small and 90% of employees don’t get them." "Big and very bureaucratic, amateurish upper management, some really bad managers, lots of really poorly managed projects, lots of projects that should never have been funded."