Azenta Life Sciences reviews

-There is a huge disconnect with upper management and techs. Multiple policy changes will happen that are poorly thought out and keep getting changed until something sticks. But don’t worry, they’ll throw a food truck your way every now and then for your troubles. -When I first started I was warned about how horrible HR was on site. It was not a lie. It’s known on the floor that if you go to HR with an issue you will get in trouble. They sent out surveys about employee satisfaction and act shocked when they consistently get bad feedback. And then nothing changes. Rinse and repeat. - The cliques and favoritism is insane here. If you’re not one of the favorites, good luck. Rules don’t apply if you’re in the clique. Someone else might get fired for one thing, but the teachers pets get rules bent. Some TS’s will go out to bars, drink, and even go on vacation with their subordinates. It is extremely inappropriate. - You are a number here. Not a person. Production rules all. Doesn’t matter if you don’t feel good. Doesn’t matter if your task is tedious. Numbers are pushed so hard it’s difficult to believe to believe they care about quality. - There was a stark difference in culture when the new CEO came around. Before, there were issues but the job was tolerable. There have been so many changes in the past few months it’s hard to keep up. - there is little room for growth and a huge turnover rate. not a lot of transferable skills if you don’t want to be in this industry. this is a warehouse job that is recruited as a more science based job. -there are regular issues on site with water. multiple bathrooms with be closed, there’s no water in the break room, etc. office workers will get to go home. Biobank workers have to stay. on the same vein as employee safety, if the weather looks bad. just call out. they will not send you home for bad weather. even if everything else is shutting down.

Management needs formal training. There’s no regulation for how employees receive promotions or raises. The expectations are unclear and not followed. They rather hire outside the company, than promote employees within. There’s favoritism and restriction on supervisors to be able to promote based on merit and take care of their technicians. They care more about numbers than the technicians themselves. Meaning they don’t follow their own core values. Supervisors should be supported by management when wanting to promote their staff. Not questioned and doubted. There’s maybe 1 good supervisor at this company. Everyone else will use fire at will heavily versus creating a personal improvement plans and working with their staff. They’ve cultivated an oddly cliquey environment instead of the mentality that we’re all one team and should be here for everyone’s growth. Not to mention the amount of HR complaints that get “resolved”. The employees live in fear that they could lose their job any day at 3pm.