Insanely Arrogant People At The Top - Anonymous employee Repligen Employee Review

1.0
Feb 20, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay, free coffee, free food at least once every other week. Lots of parties if you don't mind making up the missed work time to go to them.

Cons

Toxic environment. Bosses lie. Rampant cronyism. People in positions that they don't belong in, don't deliver the work for their position but they are protected because they were brought in by people at the top that they are friends with. Everyone puts up with more and more stress until they're about to quit and then management does too little too late to help and people leave. People at the top are ridiculously arrogant and promise things and speak to customers about things that they don't actually know about. Then the workers have to work mega overtime to compensate for bad decisions. I saw this for two years not just single incidents, it's a pattern. They want to own their employees lives. They are not geared toward work / life balance, everyone works overtime. That stinks when you're salary or have a family or don't want to miss life, die young from stress etc. My boss worked 120 hours a week on a regular basis. They get a kick out of making people travel, especially when it's a hardship for the worker. They buy smaller companies that are in line with their industry and then gut them and destroy all the key parts of what made the product work because they think that their system of doing things is 'superior' when in fact it's entirely uninformed and inefficient. They don't care about the customer, they just want to use the systems that make them sound good on paper, likely because they are trying to sell the whole company to a bigger company later. Their business outlook is good because they basically cook the books at the customer's expense. Statements like 'Oh, we can't ship that this quarter, customer has to wait because revenue has to be perfect', 'we can't report that issue this quarter it will cost something that will make revenue not look perfect' is the tip of the ice burg. It feels unethical. These fancy systems make the work harder and delay delivery for the customer. I watched three companies go from having virtually no customer complaints to having a steady stream of issues after being bought by Repligen. Repligen likes to impose uneducated growth models on people that are already over allocated and over taxed. People get sick. It's sad and depressing. Sure they have all kinds of office parties and social things. But the workers in my group could only go to them if they made up for the work they'd miss by working nights and weekends. Not cool. I feel terrible bad mouthing anybody but in this case, BEWARE.

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