Management - Core Technician II Lonza Employee Review

3.0
Oct 19, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Opportunities to move up in company.

Cons

Management make rational decisions for the demand of business needs. Core Technicians are placed on a 12 hour rotating schedule without any choice. Ask "for volunteers" first but just put technicians where they please anyway without any input from the employee. There is also much favoritism in areas of company. They also do VOE which is Voice of Employee Surveys in which they ask for employees input but do not do much with that.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

Diverse opportunities across departments as one wanted

Cons

Provide decent pay and benefits

2.0
Jun 23, 2026
Recommend
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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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