STAY AWAY AT ALL COSTS!!!! - Project Manager/Continuous Improvement Engineer Avantor Employee Review

1.0
Jan 17, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

nothing really! This place is not a good place to work. Stay away, dont waste your time here. I did and left a decent company for growth but this was a disaster

Cons

Just too many!! leadership is terrible. Plant managers are good. But their hands are tied and it is even difficult for them to come to bat for you. Company is driven by only cost cutting. no real investments being made to make it operational better. I am an expert process engineer with very good experience but working here for four months was the worst decision in my life I was told the bad reviews on glassdoor and other places were because they had gone through layoffs etc and were now in a growth stage and were improving morale. So for a career change and growth i joined this company. Terrible decision, do not ignore the reviews on this site. They are true and actually under exaggerated. HR is in bed with management period. They do unethical things and are proud of it. The operations group controls everything. There leadership is all friends who came from another company and it is true all they care is about there pockets getting deeper. No coaching, mentor ship and lack of sound judgement. I worked in bigger manufacturing environments in my past career and Avantor refused to take any of my advice and wanted to continue to beat people into submission. I can write more and more about this company. DONT GO HERE TO WORK!! SAVE YOURSELF A HEADACHE!!

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