Undervalued Lab Staff - Study Director Nelson Labs Employee Review

1.0
1 Aug 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The facility is nice and well-kept.

Cons

The driving force of the company is its laboratory operations, but lab personnel are undervalued. The high level of accountability/responsibility required of people in the lab is paired with low compensation and a lot of stress in many instances. The company recently merged with Sterigenics and things are worsening for lab staff as many groups are experiencing high workloads in an attempt for Nelson Labs to become more "lean." Many longstanding people are leaving the company and the CEO now seems out of touch. Cannot recommend.

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5.0
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Pros

Great people in the company

Cons

Lab industry is low margin

3.0
24 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

*Team builds if they schedule them *Ice cream twice a week *Lab experience *Coworkers

Cons

*Micromanagement *Hard to move up *They don't care about their employees like they used to. They're opening up a new clean room and I highly advise to anyone that's going to apply to avoid sterility assurance as much as possible. High turnover rate and you usually can't take a break until after your shift which you can be in the clean room for 8-12 hours. Lots of mandatory overtime and it's exhausting. Mostly standing in one place and need to be very aseptic or else you will ruin the test. There's also cameras everywhere watching you. It's easy to burnout in this department. Even if you try leaving you'll never truly get out of it.

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