Just another low headcount and high workload company - Senior Scientist Lonza Employee Review

1.0
Mar 27, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Staff members can be friendly Bonus is decent Plenty of opportunities to move department and build your career before leaving

Cons

Lack of collaboration as teams are aggressive against each other. I've never seen soo many people getting signed off from burnout or disappearing suddenly. Everyone looks and sound like zombies with no life left in them. The recent push for lower headcount and higher workload has a huge negative effect on all aspect of the company.

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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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