Management needs to do better - Core Technician Lonza Employee Review

3.0
29 Oct 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Lonza gives great opportunity to start off your career in the industry. Training has come a long way and has gotten faster for new hires.

Cons

There is a lot of favoritism in the work place making it somewhat toxic. Some supervisors seem to not know what is going on with processing and depend on techs so solve their own issues. Techs are on 12 hour shifts overnight with work overload that is not dispersed correctly amongst teams. Communication is horrible from supervisors to techs and only lead techs know what is going on and keep information to themselves.

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5.0
8 Jun 2026
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Pros

Diverse opportunities across departments as one wanted

Cons

Provide decent pay and benefits

2.0
23 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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