DLR Reviews

MY review is for DLR in Wessling : not good place for people with some experience. not good place to make PhD, not good for people without connections that are just scientist which would like to work on these topics. there is a lack of knowledge here, very chaotic, good people are neglected or mobbed. (yes there is mobbing here, and its not little). unfairness in the treatment of employees, employees which are privileged because of who their are friends or Whos their family is are treated as gold, the other ones that do all the work, many extra hours, receive no recognition and if they live that place they get as default a bad certificate, and of course a bad reputation so that other people thing is their fault. This place has destroyed the career of many good people, it takes some time for them to get up, but they will because they are good. There is almost no chance for carrer, only through connections, most of the competent people leave this place....

There are also several cons, of course. One is the salary. Because DLR is a governmental funded organisation, it is below industry salaries. Especially for young people. The career development is also nearly non-existent. You stay research engineer till the end. Internal candidates are not promoted for management positions. There are also times when the workload gets extremely high. You are asked to work on two or even three projects, do acquisition of additional projects, and publish on conferences and in journals, all in parallel.