Lonza reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(1,754 total reviews)
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Wolfgang Wienand

75% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Lonza has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,754 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lonza employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Dec 13, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There is a cafeteria here in case you forget your lunch.

Cons

I highly recommend looking elsewhere for employment if you're used to talking things through with your colleagues rather than going to HR without an attempt at expressing an issue. HR is real at this company which is great but the back stabbing to get to a certain position is real and HR gets used in the process. I have PTSD, I will never fully trust colleagues again due to working here and nothing even really happened to me. From my experience I can say working hard and learning everything doesn't get you ahead. Sucking up to management and then getting people in trouble/ fired using HR does. This is everywhere, yes, but I've never seen it as bad as it is here. When I was there a good army veteran coworker got fired while another coworker who had no prior experience, no applicable higher education, physically couldn't do the job but sucked up and had a family member inside got promoted. Yes, there should be a good space for employees but back stabbing to get promoted or getting management to threaten people isn't going to give a good environment either. This is the pharmaceutical industry, it shouldn't be based on if you like someone it should be based on if they are competent to do the job and ensure that the product going out the door is safe. There are lots of good qualified men/women who work here who no longer talk or tell their jokes in fear of how someone younger may spin it to get themselves ahead.

1.0
Mar 3, 2020

Toxic Culture

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Location, good colleagues, good benefits

Cons

Toxic culture which can become very old after a while. Management can be very negative at times, and certainly pick favorites. There are many quality people at this site, but there needs to be something done to fix the overall company culture. There is a very turnover rate of employees.

1.0
Oct 29, 2018

Warehouse Sr Leader

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Ok pay and benefits in company

Cons

Poor management, and poor HR

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