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Azenta Life Sciences

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Azenta Life Sciences reviews

2.5

26% would recommend to a friend

(306 total reviews)
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John Marotta

19% approve of CEO

22% positive business outlook

Azenta Life Sciences has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 306 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Azenta Life Sciences employee rating is 29% below average for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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306 reviews
1.0
Jun 30, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It helped to get a salary job as a recent college graduate and you are granted about 20 days of PTO. This is a good place to go to if you have no other options and need a stepping stone to the scientist positions you really want.

Cons

Pay is $10K lower than most comparable jobs in the same field for the same positions. Covert biases of race and gender; if you are not liked by management or not the right color or gender, they'll never let you move to other depts despite promising to. False promises of being told that you will be moved to library prep or sequencing or extraction after being trained in sample QC (a broken system that makes sample QC a trap for some workers). High turnover rate coupled with a severe lack of training and trainers leads to so much tension in feeling like a burden having to ask for help or training from your coworkers who are busy with their own workload. An emphasis for quality AND quantity on paper, but really just a push for quantity and to heck with quality of results in real life. Management also many times created extra steps that take more time to ensure quality, but also would push workers to maintain the same speed or speed up despite it clearly not being possible. Just understand that this place should only be a stepping stone on your path to the rest of your career as there is a lot of office politics and it can negatively affect you if you stay too long.

2.0
Jun 28, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Co-workers are some of the best people I've ever worked with. They're dedicated, self-motivating, dependable, self-managing, and incredibly talented & intelligent. Benefits are solid and dependable. The work itself is rewarding and for a good cause. It's a good place to build your resumé.

Cons

High turnover rate. You have to fight for every raise and every promotion. Upper management is oblivious to employee needs (even when everyone is clearly stating their pain points) - very little emphasis on training, poor planning, short-sighted projects and unreasonable action, and disrespectful. They assign work outside of a person's job description regularly, without warning, without asking, without guidance/transition, and without compensation for no good reason. HR is nonexistent. The only support we get is from each other. There is very little diversity - it's incredibly white and male dominated. Processes are immature and poorly managed. The company has questionable criteria for electing and advancing leadership. Leadership qualities seem not to involve compassion and understanding, but their ability to relentlessly bring profits at everybody's expense

3.0
Jun 17, 2022

Good first job

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible leave, end of year company shut down, remote work

Cons

Too much work and long work hours

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