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    Patheon Reviews

    Updated 4 March, 2019
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    Patheon President and CEO Marc N. Casper
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    • "Needs help to keep the work life balance" (in 11 reviews)

    • "poor management, shift, heavy work load" (in 7 reviews)

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    1. "Excellent work Environement with opportunities to grow."

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      Former Employee - Technologist III in Toronto, ON
      Former Employee - Technologist III in Toronto, ON
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Patheon full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Very Good Environment with Team Work and Equal Opportunity Employer.

      Cons

      Sometimes Pressure to work with clients but Group Leaders and Supervisors will help you out as a team.

    2. "Validation"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Patheon full-time

      Pros

      Great company culture. People are nice.

      Cons

      Not a lot of parking spots.

    3. Helpful (1)

      "Great comany that promotes team work and respects its employees."

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      Former Employee - QC Analyst in Toronto, ON
      Former Employee - QC Analyst in Toronto, ON
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Patheon full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Good working environment, decent salary and good benefits. It’s a great place to start your career and learn good laboratory practices

      Cons

      They require employees to work varying shifts in order to support the manufacturing facility. It takes years to get seniority.

    4. Helpful (2)

      "QC/QA DEPARTMENT"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Mississauga Valley, ON
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Mississauga Valley, ON

      I worked at Patheon full-time (More than 8 years)

      Pros

      use to be a great place to work and grow and learn , flexible time, good benefits

      Cons

      Too much stress , unrealistic goals and just thinking about more profit which damaged the culture and relationship between employees, every body fight with each other and less respect ( due to high stress level) and unrealistic goals. so many people went for short disability

    5. Helpful (1)

      "Serious change is needed"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Toronto, ON
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Toronto, ON
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Patheon full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Good location. Co workers are great and you get to learn a lot from your peers. You get to network with staff at many of the top 20 pharma companies and the work is interesting. Making a difference in patient lives feels rewarding and you get to be involved in many different aspects of the business.

      The company subsidizes cafeteria meals so lunch is cheap. Salary is ok.

      Cons

      Systems and processes are broken and inefficient and management routinely ignores employee solutions that address root causes and instead focuses on band aid solutions that keep resulting in wasted energy and client frustration.

      Business processes are poorly designed and not documented which results in a lot of needless effort being spent on day to day transactions. There are a lot of SAP and Quality System enhancements that could support the business however due management’s short sightedness, management refuses to spend time to review our processes and develop the proper ERP system tools to deal with the issues.

      Management fixates far too much on short term revenue and OTD KPIs and too much time and energy is wasted reporting these numbers to corporate. Rather than creating a world class client experience and securing growth long term, site management wastes time irritating clients by “re-negotiating” (i.e falsifying) OTD Numbers and pressuring clients to disrupt their internal plans to

      There is zero focus on people at Patheon and managers are not given the time or skills to develop employees. Morale is low and there is a lot of unhealthy conflict between teams and managers which makes things even more difficult. Changes to roles are talked about but not explained to impacted staff and communication to staff lacks transparency. Employees have to fight managers to get basic training and new employee on boarding is appallingly bad.

      Advice to Management

      Listen to and value you’re employees. Too many good people are leaving because of this.

    6. "workplace"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Patheon full-time

      Pros

      quite clean friendly , good place to work

      Cons

      too busy, long shift work

    7. "Pharma company"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Patheon full-time

      Pros

      good overall working environment within

      Cons

      busy environment , loads of customer inspections

    8. "Pkg lead"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Mississauga, ON
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Mississauga, ON
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook

      I have been working at Patheon full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Positive environment, fair compensation, convenient location

      Cons

      Lack of logical approach in leading team, miscommunication between departments

      Advice to Management

      Be aware of the situation on theach ops floor

    9. "PDS-AD Supervisor"

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      Current Employee - Supervisor in Whitby, ON
      Current Employee - Supervisor in Whitby, ON
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Patheon full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Great place to work. All the employees were dedicated to bring the company to this state.

      Cons

      Needs help to keep the work life balance

      Advice to Management

      N/A

    10. "Technologist/Scientist"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Patheon full-time

      Pros

      endless work to do, sometimes OT

      Cons

      -lack of proper planning, scheduling, training in department
      -high expectations , low rewards
      -unequal workload among employees

      Advice to Management

      develop your employees and treat all fairly
      try to minimize amount of heavy duty work