Alcami Reviews

If you are saying: “I might still want to work at Alcami; who can I see?” I offer simply: a psychiatrist. I suspect the rest of you are here because you enjoy a good old fashioned slow motion train wreck. To the uninformed job seeker, it may be easy to fall for some of the well-groomed statements that Alcami advertises, besides the fake reviews. “A culture of innovation, accountability, and customer focus” looks good on paper, but to those who know, it’s as empty as the reactors will be if the FDA and customers decide to take a close look. “It is our goal to be the most efficient, safe and reliable option…” is a stone’s throw from propaganda, and “World Class” is a Hale-Bopp comet ride from reality. I strongly suggest that you, dear job seeker, simply review the titles of a half dozen or so pages of Alcami reviews. If the titles alone don’t convince you what a dumpster fire this place is, then I’ll urge you to read the reviews in full. Because if you do join us, you will find these reviews accurately describe the fresh hell you will feel every weekday morning when you wake up. So what is it about Alcami that causes it to earn these reviews: the management. One could write a doctoral dissertation about all their failures (the cynic may suggest it’s simply a matter of tying bonuses to short term revenue goals and finding top brass with a certain, um, “style” of ethics, but I digress). Rampant tyranny permeates the upper ranks, both in corporate and at the site level. It’s often stated that people don’t leave bad companies, they leave bad managers. And at Germantown, they are leaving in droves. 30% have left year to date. The median Germantown employment tenure is 1.5 years. That’s it. 18 short months to start work, go through the honeymoon period, recognize it’s time to leave, then find and accept a new job. To put this in perspective, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the median tenure for those in the food preparation and serving related occupations is 1.9 years. Think about what this means. You will choose to leave your job at Alcami in less time than the minimum wage paid workers who prepared and served your food, then cleaned up after you, at that sub sandwich joint you recently visited. Four years or more of college, and you’d be happier wearing a paper hat!! There are number of factors you’ll seriously need to consider before joining this nightmare. If you have a family, let your spouse and kids know they’ll be living the life of a single parent family. And if you’re relocating, tell your kids not to make close friends; they’ll be pulled out of school again in a couple of years when you move on to your next job. Single? You’ll stay that way. You will be working for a management team that spends 60+ hours per week at the office, plus logs a few extra hours from home throughout the evening, and expects similar commitment from you. What’s hard to understand is why their career is so much more important than their family life; what is crystal clear is that their career is much more important than your family life. That’s not me talking: that’s roughly 100 past and current employees, over a few short years, warning you about their experiences in these reviews. And since the true root cause of all of these problems can be traced to Germantown’s Patient Zero (borrowing this phrase from an anonymous posting on CafePharma’s AAI web board, even though at GT there are three patient zeros), this pattern will continue at least as long as they are employed. My hope is that if you had been considering a career at Alcami, you’d stopped reading long ago and have moved on to reviewing the next company. But if you are still hell bent on applying, and since this is the CONs section, allow me to describe my thoughts on what to expect for the 18 months you’ll last here. It takes just three words lasting 19 seconds: Flounder Supermarket Video.

There are too many con to list but to highlight just a few one would be that everything is an emergency.........an emergency du jour. You can be working on a project with an impossible timeline and suddenly be told to drop everything and work on this project because it is an emergency. Later on you will be told to drop that because there is another emergency. When you ask what about the current emergency you are working on you are told it is not a top priority emergency and the new one is. It goes on and on. You are considered an expert on the emergency/project even though you have never worked on it before. Every day is mass confusion. There always has to be a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong which, by the way, is almost daily. You can expect to be thrown under the bus then have the bus back up over you so management can save face. Management will never allow themselves to be held accountable. There is virtually no training. It is not a problem to ask for it but you will never receive it. There is a huge amount of turnover (the good people leave) so you are always working shorthanded making demands on you and coworkers unrealistic making any work-life balance impossible. I could list many more cons but the point has been made. Most of what goes on at Alcami just cannot be made up. If a <0 rating could be made I would rate it -5.