Poor management, no training opportunities or career progression - Assistant Scientist Fera Science (Fera) Employee Review

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Fellow scientists are generally good people to work with as colleagues. The contract with DEFRA provides opportunities for interesting work.

The company likes to market themselves as providing excellent scientific work that cannot be matched due to their expert scientists. However as time goes on and the company tries to grow, the scientists are increasingly undervalued. The pay is not sufficient for the amount of work and specialist expertise you are expected to provide as a scientist. The job description is open-ended: they say jump, you say how high. A direct quote from the job description: "Delivering [scientific] work across the team as required". The company will secure contracts without ensuring that they have the scientists with the relevant expertise or availability to deliver it. Then they will celebrate getting the contract, leaving the scientists to deliver the work regardless whether it is feasible to do it without compromising good science. This company is increasingly treating the scientists like expendable base-level drones. But without expert scientists the company loses is USP. They are currently in a period of pushing growth over 5 years after being majority bought by a venture capitalist company. They are growing the company off the backs of underpaid and overworked scientists.