RBDS engineer - RBDs Bioquell Group Employee Review

1.0
1 Aug 2019
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Pros

Good starting salary for young single people who have few overheads. Most of the time is spent away from home in purple hotels eating cheap terrible food and getting fat, but at least you get that on expenses. A lot of time for yourself sat in hospital corridors and empty laboratories watching an invisible vapour fill a room. Plenty of time to look for better jobs and question why you applied for it in the first place. After working a couple of 10+ hour days each week you are rewarded by sitting in the office completing really important paperwork from 6 years ago that hasn't been completed because the engineers that did the deployment has come to their senses and subsequently left the company. If you work hard for bioquell straight for 3 years and complete all the development they set for you then you will get a 2k raise, 5 more years and you may get another. 11 years and some brown nosing management and you may get a van to work from home.

Cons

Unsociable working hours, be prepared to work from 8:30 to 22:30 then the next day on site for 6:30 for another 10+ hour day. Mandatory weekend working ruins all attempts at a social life, but it's ok because you can book a weekday off to spend with your mates, while they are at work. Unpaid overtime means the advertised £9.75 an hour for a 38.5 hour working week is more like a £7.50 an hour 90 hour working week. You actually get paid more stacking shelves at Tesco, which is disgusting considering bioquell charge up to £2000 a day for the service you provide. The management don't care about your quality of life or mental health, just your ability to get the job done for the client.

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5.0
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Pros

Great pay, professional, great team

Cons

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1.0
9 June 2016
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Pros

Travelling was enjoyable, and the techs all generally enjoyed a great camaraderie.

Cons

1. Expected to front the funds for your meals, gas/tolls while traveling, and if you were lucky they paid you back at the end of the month on time. These are people traveling ~75% and making under $45K. 2. Turnover was high. Work was hard and compensation small. 3. Major layoffs occurred this year. People that weren't laid off generally jumped ship. 4. ZERO support from headquarters in the UK. Lead time on spare parts, if you could ever get them, was at least a month. The technology is over a decade behind that of competitors. 5. Expected to be in the office if you weren't on the road. "on the road" usually consisted of 60-70 hour work weeks starting with 6AM monday flights, but they made us come in 8-5 regardless if we were not travelling. 6. Logistics department had zero understanding of what it was like to travel. They would cheap out and give you a 2 star fleabag hotel instead of a decent one over a $10.00/night difference. A nonstop flight was unheard of - their bottom line was more important than letting staff enjoy time with their families. 3 layovers was not out of the ordinary. 7. Financial controller at the time was rude, arrogant, and nasty.

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