Pros
Look- there are benefits to working at FSNS, despite what some of these reviews say... but not that many. - Skills in problem management - Skills in handling disgruntled clients/ customers - Skills in high-pace environments - Good GLP experience - Decent Safety experience - ISO and FDA experience - SOPs are clear and user friendly, a lot of care put into the work itself But that is about it. For most workers who will visit this in their employment career, FSNS is just a laboratory that they once worked at.
Cons
The cons are much more significant in my opinion. - Local management will lie on yearly employee reviews - Local management and upper management lack professionalism (late to meetings, retaliatory towards issues, improper care of issues) - Local management hardly ever would enter the Main lab and interact/lead by example - Lack of local mgmt in main lab lead to disagreements between mgmt and main lab staff - Lack of oversight into training and QC of path and main lab documentation (HUGE ISSUE with ISO validation, if caught by the authorities they CAN and SHOULD lose this qualification) - Lack of care into employees: want cheap workforce that can be exploited until they either get laid off or until they quit - The email thing for "write a good review" on Glassdoor is INSANE. While I wasn't there for this period, if true, this is beyond anything any employer should do. - Retaliation is quite common, especially in management - In 2020: lack of Covid safety, huge outbreaks would occur in labs - Never was given the expected raise for probationary period completion (6 months), was there over a year. - Mgmt was wrong about vacation periods and lied to PT workers - Mandatory overtime - Destruction of working and competent groups, e.g. night-shift that was incredible was broken into day shift and productivity went down. - Lack of listening to employees, and would shift the lab without consent of staff for "efficiency"