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Harvard Bioscience Reviews

3.3

55% would recommend to a friend

(48 total reviews)

James Green

72% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

Harvard Bioscience has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 48 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Harvard Bioscience employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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48 reviews
2.0
7 Aug 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company has a fairly tight and pleasant in-house culture, at least superficially and has regular informational and call-in meetings. Generally a pleasant and cooperative environment if you don't have to deal with office politics. Benefits, especially medical is pretty good. Nice lunchroom.

Cons

Consensus is they are a bit low on the compensation. While engineers are good, the company has an on-going sub-par marketing effort and team. Product management in the US is weak to poor. Customer service is mostly ok. Overall, upper & mid-management has been sub-par. One of the managers got the position via nepotism by the former CEO. Corporate culture has declined in the last few years. Most of the molecular products are me-too with 25 yr old designs priced too high for the market. I've seen disloyalty by company toward good sales reps. Many people left 2018-19.

1.0
31 Oct 2018

Company has great potential, but ....

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great potential with right technical leadership and knowledgeable marketing leadership.

Cons

Incompetent top leadership in marketing and engineering directorate at company headquaters.

1.0
1 Jun 2018

Poor morale

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Worker bees. Nice people around

Cons

Poorly managed. Morale very low.

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Harvard Bioscience Response
8y
Sorry to hear you feel morale is low. We do our best to engage employees with mostly positive response. Upper managers are often traveling but I agree upper management could be more visible when in Holliston.
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