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Alere Reviews

2.9

39% would recommend to a friend

(510 total reviews)

Namal Nawana

52% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

Alere has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 510 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Alere employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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510 reviews
1.0
6 Mar 2016

Not interesting company to work for

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Pros

Work life Balance working hours 8:30 - 5:00

Cons

No opportunity to grow, no development plan. You do your work no more no less. The management is not strong enough and little lazy and not enough qualified. Some of manager do what they wqnt working from home and have some "privileges" . Employees are coming to do their work and not interesting to learn or to grow. The benefit is not interesting enough compare to others companies. Not open-minded and not trained for cross-cultural management all managers have the same nationality and promote people of their country. Feel some discrimination. Promoting the cultural diversity which is not in real.

1.0
14 May 2014

If you want to work for The Devil....

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Pros

Work from home so you don't have to face the people making your work life horrible. Other employees will help you find a new job outside of the company because we all know how bad it is.

Cons

No room for movement upward; they promote the person they can manipulate the most rather than those that could improve the company Extreme micromanagement. Managers and supervisors belittle you and cannot take criticism. They are threatened by intelligent people. Awful health benefits, basically emergency coverage even for the more expensive plans. They don't care about your professional development. I feel like I've gone backward in my career and professional skills since taking this job. They act like they are all about health and wellness, but in my life I haven't felt so unhealthy as I did working there. I went from happy and chipper to irritable and depressed in about 3 months time. PTO cap is 120 hours.

2.0
6 Jan 2018

Not fair company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I don’t know what to put here

Cons

I don’t know who putted the review of 5 stars , but everything is a lie, dont believe anything . I gree with the person who put 2 stars. Management sucks is everything about favoritism and it doesnt matter if you work hard they are going to compliment the lazy people(people who are contracted by the company)They told you to work hard and they dont say nothing to lazy people ( a lot of lazy people) who doesnt do anything and they take a lot breaks all day. Really is a unfair management. They put timers when pick and pack.

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