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ACM Global Laboratories Reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(128 total reviews)
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Brian Wright

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73% positive business outlook

ACM Global Laboratories has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 128 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ACM Global Laboratories employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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128 reviews
1.0
6 Mar 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

ACM will hire anybody regardless of whether or not they meet the minimum requirements of the job. This place is a great opportunity to learn some basics about the clinical trials industry without any prior experience.

Cons

We are very much a medical diagnostics company that wants to generate extra revenue through central laboratory testing for clinical trials, but have no clue about the design, analysis, requirements, or regulations behind clinical trials. We treat all our specimens as if they were a medical diagnostics sample without any consideration for whether or not the tests we perform meet a higher standard of quality for clinical trials testing. Fragmented company and infrastructure. ACM has laboratories in Rochester NY, York England, and Singapore. The York and Singapore offices are companies that were purchased by ACM and little effort has been made to standardize processes between regions. The Rochester office uses a different LIMS system than the York and Singapore offices which makes managing studies incredibly difficult. Complete lack of training. For the most part expect to be thrown head-first into your job with little to no training. Managers are either unwilling or incapable of training new hires and we have very little documentation on how to use our custom software. Mediocrity is rewarded, and hard work is punished. Every group has their share of poor performers who could easily be fired tomorrow without impacting the company. Unfortunately, we retain and promote the worst of every group because the highest performers have already left or have one foot out the door out of frustration from having to pick up the slack. Workplace bullying is tolerated at all levels. There have been several instances where one employee has harassed or bullied another employee with absolutely no recourse even when brought to the attention of management. In fact, some of the managers have no problems with bullying their subordinates, so there is really nothing you can do if you become a victim.

2.0
26 Jan 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Offers a Pension after 5 years -Comparable health insurance to market average -HSA account with company yearly contributions -Company paid travel to headquarters if you work remote per quarter (post-Covid) -Work from Home options -Open-door policy with VP and others of the ELT team -Partially paid phone/internet bill if WFH - Openly acknowledges own shortcomings and wants to address them - Excellent "team/family" feeling across the organization - Management and leaders listen to feedback and are accepting of "pain-points" and "grips" employees are facing - Very good pay -Company paid college tuition, for directly applicable course work, however, I have not met a single person that has used it. - Very engaging President, very open to new ideas, and very vocal about things that need to change.

Cons

-Very outdated processes and technology -many redundancies in process causing extra uneeded work - large turnover as a result of item 1 and 2 above - lack of global standardization for the same processes. No regional communications between departments sending and receiving things to each other - General lack of communication/warning/forecasting for things going on - Extremely reactive, and very little proactive sight - While shortcomings are acknowledged, they take a very long time to actually be corrected or improved upon. Agreed upon timelines are always being pushed out due to "technical difficulties" - Very high workload. Once you have a full case load, extremely hard to be effective at your associated tasks while also trying to maintain a normal work-life balance - Some executive leaders had ZERO clinical trial experience when they were hired into the organization - Merit raise is every 2 years (rather than yearly) and is a paltry 2% on average. This is very below market average -Extremely lackluster onboarding/training program. Very "sink or swim" mindset. - Ever department is always behind, and yet barely has any support within them. Internal departments are not held to the same accountability as PMs are in regards to responsiveness and quality. Very "double-edged sword" mindset. - Nearly non-existent room for growth or lateral movement within the company

1.0
30 July 2019

The worst company ever!

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There is nothing positive about working here!

Cons

The worst company you could ever work for that has no care for patient safety and is only bothered about making profits. Departments are extremely understaffed and the employees are over worked, working 50+ hours a week is considered normal. Staff are dropping like flies and senior management are in a world of their own.

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