Avantor reviews

2.9

40% would recommend to a friend

(1,284 total reviews)

Emmanuel Ligner

41% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

Avantor has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,284 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Avantor employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
Aug 21, 2019

Avoid at all costs

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Pros

Barely being able to afford to pay bills I suppose.

Cons

Worst possible work environment imaginable. Seriously, this place is a total nightmare. If I could give a negative start rating I would. Management is completely incompetent. Toxic culture. Only focus is on saving every penny including at the expense of safety. They don't even try to hide it. They wear their indifference and disgraceful behavior like a badge of honor.

1.0
Feb 17, 2020

Avoid

Anonymous employee
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Pros

None that I can think of

Cons

Terrible work culture - even though the corporate values are touted every chance they get. Those are values that exist on paper and in marketing materials -- I have never seen them in action. They instituted an employee recognition/rewards program....yet no one is ever allowed to give an award with "points", so it is just a bunch of Thank You notes for show. The really hilarious aprt of that is the senior level executives giving each other awards. So totally tone-deaf it is not even funny. Below market pay, and some of the worst PTO I have ever seen - small amount considering it is just a bucket of time, not vacation and then seperate sick days. So people usually come to work sick because they would rather use those days for vacation. If you are home sick, you really are just working remote. Really, you are just working remote even if on vacation -- actually told how often per vacation day you must check in/check your email. They do whatever they can to not give any pay raises, but are hiring new executives all the time. The turnover in my department has been crazy, it is bascially a revolving door of people to the point I don't even bother to remember the names of anyone, they probably won't be here in a couple months.

1.0
Aug 1, 2018

I trust the people in Washington DC more than corporate

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Slowly accumulating time earned towards a severance for when the company gets sold or goes under. People in my area rock.

Cons

Moral is low. Management and leadership is non-existent. So many blank boxes in the org chart that the only human manager above you is two to three tiers above you. Disconnected. Reviews are so bad on Glassdoor, I highly doubt any of those org chart boxes get filled. Company is all about what looks good on paper. The lies that the executive leadership team must be telling to the stockholders!!!

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