Pros
The vast amount of work each group is responsible for means new chemists will have ample opportunities to perform analysis using a wide variety of instruments and techniques, which primarily focus on HPLC, LC-MS, GC-FID and GC-MS. In addition, troubleshooting instrument faults and failures falls to the analyst to repair and can provide new chemists with a greater understanding of how these instruments operate. There is a lot of experience to gain that will help with similar jobs in the industry, even when performing routine analysis. All the employees are genuinely helpful, even to members outside their lab group. Other lab members will lend a hand or provide experience when asked. The people working for the company want to see it succeed for the benefit of their peers. Likewise, senior management is attempting to find the roots of the many problems that plague the company.
Cons
Overwork in prevalent throughout the company for all levels of analyst. Working 50 hours weeks is not uncommon for many lab employees, and each lab group has at least one member that stays for more than 12 hours a day. This is in part due a large influx of projects without the number of experienced employees to effectively complete the work. New lab hires (most of them fresh from college) are often saddled with tasks well above their initial skill or experience level because there is no one else to take the work. People are leaving the company like rats on a sinking ship due to getting fed up with management's priorities, suffering from overwork or finding jobs that provide greater pay and benefits for the same position. This applies to both recent and long term employees. Experienced employees often leave behind complicated tasks and projects, which fall to less experienced employees or to lab groups that don't specialize in the analysis the project requires. This creates a vacuum of missing knowledge as a new analyst is expected to perform at the same ability as their predecessor to keep up with the revenue goals. Revenue is the forefront concern of senior management.