QC Hell - Anonymous employee Lonza Employee Review

1.0
21 Mar 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free food, a few cool people.

Cons

This was the most boring yet paradoxically stressful job I've ever had. For much of my experience it felt like the blind leading the blind. Several employees, management included, tended to withhold information in effort make themselves appear indispensable to those higher up the chain. Anyone could be on the chopping block at anytime, and this toxic work environment was fueled by an increasingly bitter workforce who would deliberate sabotage their coworkers. Pay was poor, even for those with years of experience. Voicing any complaints to HR was like yelling into a black hole. The training program here was by far the worst I've ever seen. Lots of tribal knowledge, and an attitude of, "that's not my problem" is deeply ingrained in the manufacturing side of this operation. These corporate monsters don't give a single crap about their workers, and will chew up and spit out as many people as long as upper management is getting their bonuses.

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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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