Mediocre growth opportunities - Biotechnologist Lonza Employee Review

2.0
Dec 21, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Salary decent, especially with the shift bonus.

Cons

- lack of growth opportunities within the company - the company does not value employees and is fine with having a high turnover - the work is very repetitive and very boring. Yet they insist on having college-educated people to fill operator positions (at least in the project I was in) - management engages in favouritism - management has no development plan for employees. I have not had a single one-to-one with anybody from management - management has poor communication skills - the shift schedule is the worst any company has. No one is happy about it, but nothing is done to change this, and copy shift patterns of other companies

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 23, 2026
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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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