BenchSci Reviews

- Favouritism and nepotism are all over the place. Special treatment for the ex-Klick employees and favour over who can sweet talk the executives. - Nano-management:- They controlled every task that you do. Breathed down the neck daily and weekly by every level of management. - Dictating opinions:- Quarterly engagement surveys and performance reviews each year (8 in total) causing opinion fatigue. This is their deviously tactics to keep everyone away from sharing the experience publicly . People also get scrutinized when they speak their mind in the supposedly anonymous survey. - They disguised as a SaaS business but in fact most features are requested by a particular client . People thought they work hard for a big vision but in reality they are put on hamster wheels. A word of advice for the Scientists who are best at what they do should just make an impact at the bench. This is only a hype. Why would you put up with the crack of whip doing meaningless excel chores and ignore the real calling to work at the lab bench with mRNA and CRISPR technology which you folks are best at. - The CDO is a new PhD grad who thought he knows everything about technology. Wrong choices are made with ego. It was very difficult to work with him as he showed hostility at work. The machine learning team is hindered by his incompetency. He held the company hostage with his convoluted legacy system. - The CEO is just a lucky dude who has connection/background with some VCs for fundings. He has zero regards for you as you are just his little expendable soldiers. Think of all the founders/comrades he got rid of one after the other. When he is finishing with you, all you get is his funny face. Make sure to turn the lights off before you go.

- hired ridiculously fast for a year only to have lay offs (except they don't call them layoffs at this company because the media might catch wind of it). It's called restructuring at BenchSci - went from a team of 20+ individuals down to a fraction - let go of 7 individuals coming back from Christmas break back to back while promoting the remaining team - seems they needed to free up some budgets - tried to convince the remaining bunch of us to give higher reviews on glassdoor to proactively combat the negative reviews and post all of our promotions so that the posts from individuals who had been let go would be drowned out - blew through so much money in 2022 - mismanaged - buzzwords are incredibly popular here. The newest one seems to be "servant leadership" - nepotism - people are treated like they're replaceable - if you don't agree with the senior leadership, they get combative