BICO Reviews

3.5

61% would recommend to a friend

(19 total reviews)

Erik Gatenholm

63% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

BICO has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 19 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BICO 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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19 reviews
1.0
Dec 8, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Cool tech, lots of exciting stuff happening in the field every day

Cons

BICO/cellink is the least professional job I've ever had. you're expected to work 12 hours a day plus weekends. most managers have 0 experience managing teams including the c-suite. you wonn't even do good work since everyone here is only focused on doing whatever erik says so they don't lose their job. they changed their name and are already putting obviously fake reviews here but just search "cellink" on glassdoor to read more

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BICO Response
4y
Thank you for providing us with this valuable feedback, we truly appreciate it and take it very seriously. It's unfortunate to see that your experience here at the company did not match the expectations. Leadership and management training is an important aspect on our agenda and is being implemented through our newly developed HR and Development organization. With this type of feedback we can further improve the focus of our training programs offered to managers and overall leadership within the Group. Thank you!
1.0
Apr 28, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very little - they have a flashy name and sleep imagery online

Cons

Do not work for BICO or any of its subsidiaries. This company has hurt over so many employees by hiring them, just to lay off their entire team a few months later because of a change in strategic direction. I was hired for less than a year before they decided my team wasn't needed, putting my visa process in jeopardy. The CEO Erik Gatenholm is beyond inexperienced and routinely made sexist comments to female coworkers. I am 100% confident he is a misogynist. He would also constantly ask us to post positive Glassdoor reviews which you can likely spot here. You can tell how messed up the company is by recent press articles on the CFO declaring Erik unfit to run the company. Everyone I know who stayed is miserable and have seen their stock options decline by 85% in the last 6 months.

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BICO Response
4y
Thank you so kindly for leaving your review as we take this feedback very seriously and are continuously working on improving our leadership. While BICO did unfortunately go through a layoff at the beginning of the year, this was a difficult decision and one that was not taken lightly. We ensured our employees were treated with respect as we made this strategic transition. HR did ensure Visa statuses were not interrupted and worked with employees individually to find roles within our companies as well as provided flexible end dates, updated agreements to ensure personal situations were met and our CEO and CPO provided personal letters of recommendations and referrals. These actions are never easy, we put the employee at the core to ensure the transition was done with dignity and respect. With this change, BICO does not currently have a Customer Success department, with no current active employees, unless it is supporting one of our other companies. We understand and appreciate it has been a time of transition on many levels, our Investors, Board, and employees support and stand by our CEO. He has led the company through unprecedented change ensuring our employees and shareholders are supported. We have no concerns that have come to HR regarding any misconduct of our CEO, however, we encourage concerns to be directed to our CPO. Additionally, our HR team, does encourage Glassdoor reviews and includes the link on our intranet site, we believe feedback makes us better and encourage employees past or present to help improve based on their experiences with our company. We are eager to improve our leadership and ensure that we provide best in class employment experience.
1.0
Feb 26, 2022

Beware, new name same garbage

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company was rebranded as BICO, make sure you look up CELLINK, for the true information on this disaster of a company. This new page and fake reviews were placed her to stroke Erik's ego. There is no good reason to work for BICO/CELLINK/Cytena/Dispendix/Scienion/Cellenion etc. if you are on the sales team, you can spend whatever you want on first class tickets, drinks, excess meals. For everyone else good luck getting the resources you need to do your job.

Cons

Everything is bad about this company. Many people leave with mental health issues. You get a real perspective on what not to look for in a company.

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BICO Response
4y
Thank you for your feedback. Our employee wellbeing is of most importance to us and ensure any concerns we get in response to an employee's health is addressed in confidence directly with the employee. Both, BICO and Cellink have been spending a great deal of time to review each companies' budgets to ensure the proper programs and policies are adhered to from a cost perspective. We have put stronger controls over travel budgets to ensure spending is within the policy. Each company manages the spend for each of their businesses and will follow the same protocols to ensure uniformity across companies and functions. We are sorry you didn't have a more positive experience and will continue to improve our processes to ensure we meet our employees expectations.
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