Pros
Free shuttle bus from train station to surrey research park. Great kitchen, facilities and amenities although the spaces are limited and get crowded at lunch time. Cant even eat at your own table without annoying other people. Have potential in the patent for liquid biopsy. However there are other companies in Surrey Research Park alone that do liquid biopsy with bigger reputation.
Cons
It seems like a lovely place to work when I first started but then on the second day when I was introduced to the training folders I know it was going to go downhill from there. Along the way the management and the decision making that took place was ridiculous as decisions were always made without involving people who actually did the job in the labs. When you tried to communicate, make an improvement or prompt suggestion nothing happened, let alone to tackle the actual problems. And peole got told off many times for doing so as miscommunications when they were just trying to raise the issues around. There are so many people leaving, more than ever. Evidently right so when there are things like fear-based leaderships, mistrust, micro-managing (they sent people to SPY on you!), overworking people that are not getting paid, undervalued, pushing to get the work done and many more and I have not even scratched the surfaces. Management are not realistic and will let you do unncessary and excessive tasks. Any efforts and questions you brought upon were futile against them as they will do whatever they could to defend themselves. They got away many times even when they were clearly at wrong and it was almost impossible to reason with them despite having concrete evidence and justifications. It was demoralising enough to put up with them and it has only evolved worse after few months which made me believe that some people there are incompetent regardless of their titled positions. You are a number, and nothing more. The place prevented internal promotions many times and the reason behind it is shocking. Not surprising as most of the promotions are not even merit-based or performance-based. Which in turn the responsibilities will only press on some other people unnecessarily. Save yourself. This place will only deteriorate your mental health (they will just hand over a card to you to contact the helplines)