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LifeSpan BioSciences

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Worst place I've ever worked. - Anonymous employee LifeSpan BioSciences Employee Review

1.0
Dec 15, 2013
Anonymous employee
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Pros

salaries reflect a for-profit business model. Gratuitous leisure and vacation/sick package. If you can hack it you can potentially be at least happy with your income here. I did not notice that any of the employees were friends with any of the other employees outside of work. The IT department did seem to have a level of camaraderie, and work well together. The CEO never talked to anybody that I saw. So, I guess that is a good thing?

Cons

Management, training, infrastructure, teamwork, HR, I would describe a cut-throat work environment. Really the cons go on. There were a number of people who had been there for years. I assume they liked stress or at least could deal with it. I think there needs to be an overhaul of management in the departments where employees are not happy.

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5.0
Apr 2, 2023
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Pros

Work is full and straight-forward. Infrastructure that has been built makes it easy to extend, without even modifying objects. This is the single biggest reason work was so satisfying - instead of an insane cycle of fixing bugs, the (positive) energy was spent building on top of the known-good code foundation! A Computer Science course about simple, clean code, with lots of space to extend should really have LSBio's environment as the gold standard!

Cons

It is a small company, so Software Engineers also tended to be IT support staff too. It's not so much a "con" as it is a reality in a small company - you won't be "stuffed away writing code all day". If a printer is broken, you'll definitely be called to help. Router needs to be moved? New disk array needs to be installed - by all means -- save your work and get up and get your hands dirty -- AND be happy about it!

1.0
Jun 13, 2025
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Pros

If you live in Seattle you can walk

Cons

No parking, everything is paper, management not willing to upgrade technology, group is very tight

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