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Great intellectual environment - Anonymous employee Lawrence Berkeley Lab Employee Review

5.0
30 Apr 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Smartest people in their fields are hired, some stay entire career, and have opportunity for international reputation building. Your collaborators will be amazing.

Cons

"Soft money" funding means everyone is scrambling for funding support for their research programs. People who are not number one or who are not lucky may not be able to contribute all that could be available from them.

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Cons

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3.0
27 May 2026
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Pros

Beautiful location, you oversee the Bay, Golden Gate Bridge and SF. Research environment, great bridge for academics to transition to a more applied research. Benefits quite good

Cons

Low wages, especially in the scientific staff. Basically no career progression. Offices are a mixed bags (some departments have brand new buildings, others have very old buildings). Do not rely on their immigration services to get anything beyond temporary work visas.

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