Pros
First class people, clean environment, invigorating innovative atmosphere, challenging work
Cons
Since Jeff Wadsworth assumed leadership about 6 years ago he has totally trashed its historic culture, discarded all the ideals that made Battelle great, and remolded Battelle into "just another ordinary big company" that is run more by bean counters than by visionaries. He has discarded Battelle's former focus on the long term and has replaced it with a beancounter's (or freshly minted MBA's) fixation on the near term; now Battelle hires and fires practically on a project basis; it has been, and still is, discarding scores of people with deep knowledge and experience that would be practically irreplaceable in many difficult new projects....... all in the interests of keeping an attractive short term financial balance sheet. The unique pride that employees once had in the Institute have been lost along with morale. Sad.