Not a place to grow - QA Officer Lonza Employee Review

2.0
Jan 26, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Colleagues are normally young and international, so that you can have language exchanges very easily. An opportunity to improve language knowledge. As there are barely people and the turnover is high, managemeny is normally flexible with your holidays.

Cons

Disorganized management board, not competitive salaries. If your goal is to grow at any cost, this is your place. If you want to stay steady and grow as you learn, and you want to learn from other people, find a different company. Normally you will work more than 10 hours a day if you want to. But many people will not even work 5 a day (when per contract they have 8...).

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Cons

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Pros

Compensation (for higher level associates/senior management positions)

Cons

1) Work/life balance - leaders don't honor paid time off. Many teams expect you to be available during paid time off periods 2) Benefits - employer doesn't offer employer-subsidized vision insurance 3) Holidays - employer doesn't offer MLK Day and Juneteeth as paid days off, indicating how little they value diversity, inclusion, and belonging 4) Promotions - political; not based on merit 5) Mandated 5 day return-to-office to enable "in person collaboration" while at the same time offshoring jobs to cheaper markets. 6) PTO - based on tenure, but I think Lonza prefers high turnover so they don't have to give people time off (if they even honor it in the first place - see con 1) 7) Lack of harmonization - for an established CDMO, I was surprised at the level of misalignment between sites and the lack of standardization of processes

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