Good Benefits - Anonymous employee Lonza Employee Review

2.0
Oct 16, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good Benefits, decent co-workers. Good schedule.

Cons

High turnover in middle/upper management. Big difference in the way departments are treated. The people doing the physical work are overworked and spread way to thin. People are constantly being moved to different areas to fill in. They have taken most of the experienced people to work in a new suite and instead of hiring new people they have hired a minimal number of temps to fill about 1/2 the positions, leaving everyone else to scramble to complete the work on time.

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Pros

Compensation (for higher level associates/senior management positions)

Cons

1) Work/life balance - leaders don't honor paid time off. Many teams expect you to be available during paid time off periods 2) Benefits - employer doesn't offer employer-subsidized vision insurance 3) Holidays - employer doesn't offer MLK Day and Juneteeth as paid days off, indicating how little they value diversity, inclusion, and belonging 4) Promotions - political; not based on merit 5) Mandated 5 day return-to-office to enable "in person collaboration" while at the same time offshoring jobs to cheaper markets. 6) PTO - based on tenure, but I think Lonza prefers high turnover so they don't have to give people time off (if they even honor it in the first place - see con 1) 7) Lack of harmonization - for an established CDMO, I was surprised at the level of misalignment between sites and the lack of standardization of processes

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