You can't trust anyone - Manufacturing Associate Lonza Employee Review

1.0
13 Dec 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There is a cafeteria here in case you forget your lunch.

Cons

I highly recommend looking elsewhere for employment if you're used to talking things through with your colleagues rather than going to HR without an attempt at expressing an issue. HR is real at this company which is great but the back stabbing to get to a certain position is real and HR gets used in the process. I have PTSD, I will never fully trust colleagues again due to working here and nothing even really happened to me. From my experience I can say working hard and learning everything doesn't get you ahead. Sucking up to management and then getting people in trouble/ fired using HR does. This is everywhere, yes, but I've never seen it as bad as it is here. When I was there a good army veteran coworker got fired while another coworker who had no prior experience, no applicable higher education, physically couldn't do the job but sucked up and had a family member inside got promoted. Yes, there should be a good space for employees but back stabbing to get promoted or getting management to threaten people isn't going to give a good environment either. This is the pharmaceutical industry, it shouldn't be based on if you like someone it should be based on if they are competent to do the job and ensure that the product going out the door is safe. There are lots of good qualified men/women who work here who no longer talk or tell their jokes in fear of how someone younger may spin it to get themselves ahead.

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Pros

Diverse opportunities across departments as one wanted

Cons

Provide decent pay and benefits

2.0
23 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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