Making a white collar job feel blue collar - Scientist Lonza Employee Review

2.0
6 Sept 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

On the job educational opportunities -You can get your feet wet-learn GMP, purification, cell culture if you truly desire to, because Lonza is LEAN Flexible schedule in some groups-but not too flexible Its the best game in town and they know it -NH is not known for big business or technology -Short, easy commute in NH -Subsidized and decent cafeteria -Great people, the culture may be lacking, but I liked most people that worked there

Cons

-Too lean- after a survey chatting with coworkers, EVERYONE put "overworked, underpaid, stressed" or some variation of synonyms for those words -Underpaid if you have a technical or science background They know that you can get 20-30k more to go to Mass, but they constantly remind you that you work in NH. Probably only MSAT, engineering , or manufacturing supervisors would be a threat or consideration to, everyone elses job is too cushy to do that Removed benefits -9/80 program used to exist to give summer hours or every other friday off-nixed -Now pushing a worse health plan on people -All insurance (Matrix) and benefits are from cut rate companies which were a horror to deal with for disability -You can go to school at SNHU (which is online) or UNH, but they will push not to. SNHU was offered as a rather useless degree in the field. -Management at many levels is lacking- some of the new blood is good, but some people fell into roles they didn't belong in

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Cons

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Pros

Compensation (for higher level associates/senior management positions)

Cons

1) Work/life balance - leaders don't honor paid time off. Many teams expect you to be available during paid time off periods 2) Benefits - employer doesn't offer employer-subsidized vision insurance 3) Holidays - employer doesn't offer MLK Day and Juneteeth as paid days off, indicating how little they value diversity, inclusion, and belonging 4) Promotions - political; not based on merit 5) Mandated 5 day return-to-office to enable "in person collaboration" while at the same time offshoring jobs to cheaper markets. 6) PTO - based on tenure, but I think Lonza prefers high turnover so they don't have to give people time off (if they even honor it in the first place - see con 1) 7) Lack of harmonization - for an established CDMO, I was surprised at the level of misalignment between sites and the lack of standardization of processes

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