Ruined Talecris - Senior Associate Scientist II Grifols Employee Review

1.0
Aug 9, 2012
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Pros

They don't really expect much work, so if you don't like working hard, Grifols is the place for you.

Cons

Low salary, poor benefits, awful working conditions, incompetent management. To make it worse, Talecris was a pretty good employer. They were good to employees, made lots of money for investors, and provided life-saving drugs to patients in need. Now everything is about feeding the CEO's very oversized ego. It's understandable that after buying Talecris, they would need to be tight with money, but how can they justify laying off people and slashing R&D spending and then build a museum (as if anyone actually is actually going to visit an industrial plasma fractionation museum) and the CEO doesn't have time to run the company but has time to write memoirs.

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Cons

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