Vantaggi
Flexi time and the simple fact that you can literally spend your entire career doing nothing but cause trouble for others as long as you complete your timesheet each week nobody will care
Svantaggi
Where do you start. 1) if you are passionate about good science do not work here. The science is mediocre at best and projects are funded, selected and given to friends of the decision makers. 2) the promotion prospects of good technical experts is comical because to get the higher levels it's all about corporate chutney and not being a capable scientist. 3) to get career progression people move into management as a TL to get the level which leads to horrific management standards and all the incompetent people go into management which has resulted in a complete lack of respect for TLs. 4) the reorganisation of Dstl over the past 2 years was supposed to slim down the management costs but all it has done has given in effective management the chance to do non jobs. 5) bullying and back stabbing is a real problem and nobody is prepared to do anything about it and people become untouchable. 6) when management deal with problem individuals they usually promote them out of thier position so bad behaviour is rewarded. I joined dstl believing that top scientists and experts worked here and to be fair there are a few very good scientists. However, these people are few and far between the taxpayer should be very dissatisfied with how their money is wasted on some of the worst scientists, project managers and management going. What a shame considering this site used to do some brilliant research. Jonathan Lyle go and go now!
