1. How's the work life balance in general? 2. Is there good job security in general? 3. How difficult is it to switch between groups as your career progress? For example if I was interested in the high performance computing work at Sandia in the future.
Thanks again for the response.
I am in a software role, focused on future architectures and HPC, WLB is good in our department.
Job security is really good IFF you are an FTE, if you are a postdoc or an LTE then meh.
Changing departments requires some work, but at least on the open science side it's easy to switch projects. You keep the same manager, but just work on different stuff. If you are in a super specific mission area it might be harder to change work.
If you are interested in HPC at Sandia just email me and lets chat more, HPC is where I currently sit and know the most people.