Pros
Amazing coworkers in the labs and offices. Decent exposure to basic laboratory and administrative skills. Sometimes there is free food, but usually only leftover scraps for the non-executive employees.
Cons
Literally everything else. The culture is absolutely toxic, and it comes from the top down. Everyone in executive leadership wants to preach work-life balance, open communication, listening and learning from the “boots on the ground,” but it’s so obviously just lip service. Every major change is a “business decision” to “align with the LEAN management principles” which really just means cutting corners to make the books/numbers look better at the expense of your employees. Don’t even get me started on the branding and rebranding, mass layoffs, constant changes in business model. It all just makes it abundantly apparent that upper management has no clue what they are doing. The company has been on a clear downward trend since getting bought by Brooks, but that trend became a spiral this past year at the hands of current executive leadership. Pay is low in vast majority of roles with raises, bonuses, and benefits consistently getting worse year over year. Labs don’t have the proper headcount or even functional equipment to meet the KPI expectations set for them. Interdepartmental communication is a nightmare, especially from lower positions to higher-ups, so much so that it takes months to resolve basic operational issues. The list really just goes on and on.