Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Review

I have been here almost 15 years and enjoyed every single day. Lots of learning and lots of freedom and opportunities to find your niche. Colleagues are skills, kind and very collaborative.

Take your children here to make them passionate about scientific research.

Been working here for 10+ years. I guess you could say I like it.

Great pay but environment is shady but what do you expect working for the government. They make nuclear weapons here.

LLNL is a great place to work. You'll find top scientists and engineers that come from around the country, and world, to work here. Everyone is committed to their mission. There is a strong focus on safety, security and protecting our environment. This lab IMHO is an important national resource that I'm proud to be part of. Benefits are comparable to commercial businesses. The cafeteria has lots of options and is a very good place to eat with healthy choices. This is a great place for a challenging and rewarding career.

Giant laser, giant supercomputers, secret research facilities, blowing stuff up in new and interesting ways...what's not to love?

We went on a tour of the facility, since it's a world-famous lab for all sorts of research! The tour was three hours but the last hour at the NIF was really the only interesting part. Still worth it if you want to see the research that's funded by a portion of your tax dollars.

Thoroughly evil lab building weapons that will be used someday to kill and injure millions .

Awesome Campus, I mean not google but defiantly a great place to work

Awesome place to work. Really cool projects. Cutting edge science.

well the one and only reason is because my daughter works their and loves and has a great career.

Restricted access, badging required but they do have an open to the public Discovery Center located on the Greenville Avenue side.

We make the best, the greatest, the most terrific energy research

I work here, so I have to like it! Actually, a very good place to work, on the whole.

Working here for 34 years has had its ups and downs but overall it's been good.

Not a public place. Keep out .must follow the signs and respect the Law

I contract for them. Great place people medical facility for employees

Awesome place, awesome people doing amazing science. One of America's cornerstone think-tank.

The Discovery of elements 115 and 116 are great! We can use these to further research UFO's and other Et spaceships.

Everyone here is so professional. Especially the security!

Someday they'll achieve ignition, until then, it's a money sink with mediocre scientists.

Visited the NIF building and checked out the Lazer tech.

Protecting & Developing Our World & Future with the brightest minds!

Such a great place to visited. The scientific process and passion that exuded from this place is amazing to see. It's just contagious.

Great place to work and great people! Amazing research going on! Public can't get in though.

Can't take photos, but that is to be expected. They work on extremely interesting projects here. ROTC Day was phenomenal, I only wish that we had more time to see the different areas of research. Appeals mostly to the scientific side of things but there's no reason that everybody can't learn something from the folks here.

Not sure what they do here but the people that work here seem really excited to go to work.

The entrance at Vasco Road and East Ave. is the freight entrance. The entrance by the west badge office is where you want to go for business. The visitors center is at 4th Street and Greenville Road. The official address is 7000 East Ave.

Fun but stressful, there are these guys still in costumes with guns that chase you around when you go in. And these spinning red lights made a lot of noise when i walked in. I just wanted to look around, very interesting though big computers and weird rooms with boxes in them, I couldn't get in there. :( Fun day trip.

If you like IT this place makes you feel like Alice in Wonderland.

I am not allowed to go in due to need high clearance but over all its a nice from the out side

It's a DOE facility (so is Sandia next door), so you're not getting in without a badge. The part of the Lab that is open to the public is the Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC), off Greenville, where UNCLE Credit Union is located. The tours of the Lab's Supercomputing facility also start from here. This area is pretty quiet, given it's relatively remote locale.

The promise of Fusion energy, the most energetic lasers, fastest computers and being surrounded by very smart people working on enormously complex projects!

I have worked here for over 36 years, and a better place to work you could never find. I have been truly blessed

You can't get in here. But check out the discovery center on Greenville Rd

The best tour ever! My daughter enjoyed every bit of it.

Totally not the DOE lab from stranger things, I don't know what you're talking about. No interdimensional portals here, move along citizen.

Cool place but the aliens in the vault are kinda scary

Came here to get some radioactive materials for a...project...of mine...nothing to do with weaponry of course...
Couldn't obtain any of the uranium I was looking for, but it was a neat tour

Have been trying to get a tour here for years whenever I come through town, and finally found a space! FYI: they only do the tours on Tuesday mornings, it's limited to 14 people, and usually booked out months in advance by colleges. I got lucky by going the day after Halloween.
The tour itself was great. Visiting the Carbon 14 dating lab, and the NIF were definitely the highlights. Though we didn't see the actual NIF test chamber (blocked off from tour groups now), we did get a lot of insight and fun stories from our two guides, who were both retired workers from the lab.
Absolutely worth the visit if you can make it happen.