Vantaggi
Stanford Benefits with higher pay than the main campus. If you work in a good group then it is a very cool place to work. The new Director has made some noteworthy changes but still needs to weed out a lot of bad apples across the site.
Svantaggi
The laboratory still has many single points of failure in terms of infrastructure and people. The majority of middle managers are empire builders and use their staff to further their own career. They have one Admin Staff Manager who runs each directorate and half of could not run the kiddie train at the petting zoo. Most people in high or mid management positions got there because they kissed the right butts or golfed with them. When something goes wrong the little guy takes the blame while the managers escape unscathed with a BONUS! I left because my boss was a micro-manager with a bad attitude. She treated the staff like dirt and acted like everyone besides her was stupid. The director likes her for some reason so she isn't going anywhere unless there is a change at the top. I figured it was time to go somewhere else and not waste my time in such a venomous work environment.