The downward spiral is real - Anonymous employee Nelson Labs Employee Review

1.0
Feb 8, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1- Free popcorn 2- Free fruit and drinks 3- Some nice company activities 4- Great place to start a career

Cons

1- Terrible place to stay - I don't recommend anyone stay longer than 3-4 years 2- Clueless upper management that is terrified of their ridiculous CEO 3- Outright nepotism from some members of management for friends 4- Low pay 5- A dark and cynical culture is starting to embed itself - starting from upper management 6- A culture that focuses on blame and scapegoating, rather than finding root causes to failures. This is actually worse from the upper managers.

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Pros

*Team builds if they schedule them *Ice cream twice a week *Lab experience *Coworkers

Cons

*Micromanagement *Hard to move up *They don't care about their employees like they used to. They're opening up a new clean room and I highly advise to anyone that's going to apply to avoid sterility assurance as much as possible. High turnover rate and you usually can't take a break until after your shift which you can be in the clean room for 8-12 hours. Lots of mandatory overtime and it's exhausting. Mostly standing in one place and need to be very aseptic or else you will ruin the test. There's also cameras everywhere watching you. It's easy to burnout in this department. Even if you try leaving you'll never truly get out of it.

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