Easy Money, Toxic Atmosphere With Lots of Smiles
Pros
Easy money, you do not need a brain to work here. If you're looking to "coast" along and zone out then work here. Gym. They feed you sometimes. 401k match. Free cheap coffee. Alot of young people. Good quality products, albeit super expensive.
Cons
Naive, overworked and green management who are incompetent and enable office drama. Atmosphere of constant badmouthing and throwing others under the bus, the more you complain about others the better off you are. Atmosphere of hyper political correctness, people surviving by pretending to be offended at something harmless in order to claw their way to the top of the victim-hood pyramid. Rules are not enforced equally among coworkers, depending on what clique you belong to. Some people had to clock out for lunch, others didn't. People committed time card fraud frequently and management turned a blind eye. Performance reviews were not based on metrics or any numbers, it was based almost entirely in subjective opinion. The most productive member of the lab got some of the worse ratings. No room for position or wage improvement, one guy had been working there for over five years and he made $3/hour more than starting employees. The work place had pulverized his low-confidence personality into smithereens and he would constantly be mistreated and abused. It was a sad and pathetic thing to witness. Inappropriate out of work relationships, management going on private vacations with lower level employees and their families. Suffocating conflicts of interest. The company wastes a ridiculous amount of money. Buying things we don't need, dumping reagents, printing forests of paper that get thrown out anyway. Even more money is wasted on inefficiency, old software, bad programming, redundant steps. When I say waste I mean easily in the millions of dollars in my year working there. I immediately withdrew from their stock purchasing program when I saw how wasteful my branch was. There is possibly insider trading going on, a good amount of management sold stocks literally right before the price bottomed out and went down 50%. Someone in another lab got fired for suggesting the company actually pay for proper chemical disposal. A lot of the chemicals go down the drain, you are instructed to just "leave the facet on" to affect the concentrations measured by regulators. The building director was asked to consider installing cameras in the elevators and work areas for safety, to which he adamantly refused. Don't let people fool you when they say "Its really hard to get fired at Myriad". A coworker got fired for putting reddit memes on a wall in the employee lounge, probably the weakest reason i've ever seen someone get terminated for. The only people that get fired or leave are those who aren't bottom feeders and know they are worth more than what this place can ultimately offer. There is a reason people discuss the high turn over rate on the company message boards: the malignant management and incentive structures pushing good/productive employees away and keeping dead weight around.