Pros
If you drank your way through college, have given up on life, or can't figure out what you want to do; this is the place for you. Want zero responsibility or accountability, don't care about ethics or morals, and want to play games on your phone or watch netflix most of your day? Well step right up and schedule an interview. Don't have a degree in science or know how to use a pipette? Don't worry, we'll train you while sharing all of our irresponsible drinking stories from our glory days. Will your training be relevant to your current work? Nope, that's how we did it 15 years ago. Finished your work early? Don't tell anyone, because we're all going for a 3 hour lunch while still on the clock. It's totally okay, management knows and asks us to bring them back food. Have any medical issues? Our insurance is based out of Minnesota and will be rejected by most healthcare providers in the tri-state area. Make sure you’re open to your management about these issues though. You can be sure that they won’t share this information with all your coworkers; so that they can harass, manipulate or otherwise belittle you. Are you a woman, minority, or suffer from a disability? You’re gonna love your treatment here. You definitely won’t be given twice the responsibilities or workload without fair compensation. Don’t worry about having enough supplies or PPE to do your work everyday. It is guaranteed that you will be forced to compromise your safety and the validity of the test methods you work on daily. Forget to do real time documentation? Not a problem! Management, technical reviewers, and senior technicians will cover for you; can’t be having bad metrics! One of the most common phrases spoken is, “Nobody cares and nothing matters.” As long as we all sing the same tune, our clients, OSHA and the FDA will be none the wiser.
Cons
The aerotek recruiters for Wuxi actively admit that there are huge issues here. They consistently share and confirm that Wuxi underpays by ~40% as compared to the rest of the industry. Women are paid at least 10% less than there male counterparts. Huge issues with supply chain and safety are acknowledged and joked about everyday by management, with no plans or effort to improve. Expired media and reagents are stocked and used on a regular basis, with the full knowledge of management and senior technicians. Materials, viruses and bio hazardous materials are regularly improperly stored and disposed of. Client materials marked for GLP and non commercial usage are used in GMP for profit laboratories without client consent. New technicians are inadequately trained and constantly overworked. Technicians are forced to work with HIV+ material outside of BSL3 laboratories (no BSL3 labs onsite) or face termination. Employees who document continued violations of OSHA, FDA, and GMP regulations; and offer solutions to fix the issues, are terminated without cause. Falsification of data and backdating are encouraged to improve workflow and reduce NCEs. Contamination issues are at least a monthly occurrence. Workplace culture is rampant with nepotism, harassment, and sexual/racial discrimination. Professional and personal development is discouraged on all levels. Last years christmas party was at Lucky Strikes in Center City and cost the company less than $8 per person. Bonuses are reduced every year for technicians, despite record profits and constant building of new facilities. Management is encouraged to develop laboratory spaces that are overcrowded and safety risks to the technicians that work in them. Site and internet security is extremely poor. Phishing attacks and network blackouts are a weekly occurrence. Employees must share login/passwords in order to use equipment. Electronic locks are regularly disabled so that employees without clearance may access equipment. Equipment is consistently returned from metrology recalibrated, yet broken. BSCs and incubators fail on a monthly basis and are kept in service until they completely die. New equipment is bought to improve operations and then kept in storage for years. Hourly employees are given more work than they can complete in a workday and then punished for getting overtime. Senior technicians are encouraged by management to intimidate and harass new employees into doing things they are not trained or qualified to do. Management will not hold themselves or their favorites accountable for their mistakes and instead punish all of their employees.
