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Stream Leader - Senior Principal Research Scientist, Geelong, Australia (June 29, 2006)



  • Employee Workplace: CSIRO is federally funded government reseach organisation with over 6,000 employees. It is divided ...   READ MORE

  • Salary & Compensation: over AUD $120K/year + 19% superannuation, with possibility for salary sacrifice (tax minimalisation...   READ MORE

  • Business Outlook: Future outlook will depend on many political decisions: federal election, new CEO, new budget for 2...   READ MORE

  • Research Scientist, Canberra, Australia (June 19, 2006)



  • Employee Workplace: Generlly good, with gradiually increasing pressure to seek external funding and gradually inncreasi...   READ MORE

  • Interview & Recruiting: My last interview with CSIRO waas in 1984 so probably no longer relevant.   READ MORE

  • Salary & Compensation: Package approx $115K (AUD)/yr, plus employers contribution to Superannuation. 20 days paid leave/ye...   READ MORE

  • Business Outlook: Generally thoughtful and strategic, as befits a strategic applied research organisation.   READ MORE

  • Senior Principle Research Scientist, Adelaide, Australia (May 21, 2006)



  • Employee Workplace: CSIRO is a 6,500-strong government science laboratory with a scope that runs from agriculture to et...   READ MORE

  • Interview & Recruiting: I was hired as a result of an approach I made to the organisation (CSIRO) to one of its local senio...   READ MORE

  • Salary & Compensation: AU$115,000 + 16% employer contributed superannuation with insurance component.   READ MORE

  • Business Outlook: CSIRO is trying to transform itself from a capability-based outlook to a task-based outlook, taking...   READ MORE

  • Principal Research Scientist, Australia (February 1, 2006)



  • Employee Workplace: CSIRO is a scientific research organisation that is chartered to produce science that is of benefit...   READ MORE

  • Interview & Recruiting: There was one round of interviews. The interview was friendly but the questions were detailed (test...   READ MORE

  • Salary & Compensation: $95K AUD per annum. 20 days leave per annum. Flex leave can be accrued. Paternal/maternal and specia...   READ MORE

  • Business Outlook: CSIRO is Australia's premier science agency. In recent years it has lost its way somewhat, becoming...   READ MORE

  • Principal Research Scientist, Australia (June 16, 2005)



  • Employee Workplace: Corporate culture: CSIRO has been going through something of an identity crisis for the last two de...   READ MORE

  • Interview & Recruiting: I was hired on the strength of 1 interview lasting just over an hour. I was interviewed by the imme...   READ MORE

  • Salary & Compensation: $102,272 Australian pa; package on top of that includes $25,000 employer contribution to superanuati...   READ MORE

  • Business Outlook: The overall outlook for the organisation is uncertain as there has been a mood in government that i...   READ MORE





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