They only care about making money, not employee wellbeing - Research Associate DCN Diagnostics Employee Review

• There is no psychological safety. If you question management or speak up about issues, you are put into the category of a troublemaker, and nothing will be done to remedy the problem that was brought up. You’ll also have a target on your back moving forward • If you choose to leave, they will either ignore, bully, or try to bribe you • Do not respect or value women: o If women speak up about issues, they get labeled as “difficult”, “insubordinate”, or “troublemakers” o Women are talked over in meetings, interrupted when they speak, and have their ideas ignored (until men in management decide it’s a good idea and act as though it had never been brought up before) o Make the argument that women are valued and in positions of power (on the R&D side) because most of the senior scientists are women, but 2 of them were the first employees at the company. Also argue that one of the program managers is a woman, but she was also another one of the first employees o Upper management continues to decrease maternity benefits, but argues that employees are lucky to get any benefits at all, since it is not required of the company • Pressured to cut corners in a way that is uncomfortable as an employee. Will repeat testing/production to try to get the results they want. Will do anything to make manufacturing builds work and get passing results. Poor communication with clients with a lot of ambiguity when things are not going as planned • Incredibly difficult to get promoted or a raise. Management is awful at providing constructive feedback and gives vague directions for improvement – say that you are doing well and “just need more time” and “continue to work on projects” • Claims their turnover is much lower than what it is (and factored in the acquisition of another company for the calculation) • Don’t focus on incentives to stay/don’t care about retaining people because they believe people will leave, realize they had it better at DCN, and then come back (have heard program managers, the president, and HR all say something to this effect at different times) • Documentation practices are not the best so things can easily slip through the cracks. Quality is inconsistent and unhelpful in the lab, especially during manufacturing • They don’t want to take the time to train because it comes out of their budget, so they quickly place people on projects so they can start billing clients (including training time). All they care about is making money • There is no sick pay and different positions accrue PTO at different rates *Management will likely continue to post positive reviews to try to do damage control over all of the negative ones they have been receiving recently*