Pros
There's a lot to learn from working in a contract manufacturing company like Siegfried. Many different types of products and projects to see. There are some great people working here and when you have a solid department, there's a lot that goes right.
Cons
Schedule can be inflexible and long when your work is tied to manufacturing. QA, engineering, production, microbiology. Manufacturing a certain drug can take 8 hours to 24 hours. More if there are problems during the manufacturing process. If you are an engineer leading the project, expect to stay overnight. If you are a QA overseeing and supporting 3rd shift, expect to stay overnight. If you are a microbiologist or micro tech monitoring the environment during manufacturing, expect to stay overnight. Sometimes to make month's end, weekend production will occur. There's can be too much to handle and often time you are asked to do more than you were hired for. The minute you learn something additional, you're pretty much expected to be responsible for it. Too much of this you get stretched thin and it's harder to balance everything. The company has a tendency to hire recent graduates so a big portion of each department will be recent grads. The problem with this is that the company will go through a cycle of high work and high stress leading to relatively recent hires leaving which leads to a lot of work that gets piled up. Then comes a new recent graduate who may not have someone to fully train the person. Then more work gets piled up. The cycle repeats again.