Downhill spiral with no hope - Process Engineer Lonza Employee Review

2.0
Jul 5, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

There are some great talent but they keep loosing. Benefits are OK but could be better. You get exposed to different situations but every day is a wild card.

Cons

When the site has a 75% retention rate, there's something going on. They know that the Bay Area is a competitive market but they still don't want to pay the salaries people deserve. So people are leaving left and right. And don't get me started about management. Most of the engineering team is being pushed out to leave the company. If they haven't left yet, they're all looking to get out.

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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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