My Experience with Lonza has been a love/hate relationship. - Anonymous employee Lonza Employee Review

2.0
28 Dec 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Lonza is full of friendly people that are make the work place environment very inviting and enjoyable. The benefits package is one I would rate extremely high.

Cons

The management at Lonza is extremely pushy and deadline oriented. They have little understanding of the site and talk a big talk without walking the walk. Lonza does not support advancement in careers unless you are one of the "chosen". By that I mean the process of choosing those that will and will not succeed is extremely political and based on opinions of upper management only. I would not recommend Lonza to anyone that is looking to further their career within the Biotechnology industry.

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Cons

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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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