Octapharma Plasma reviews

2.7

24% would recommend to a friend

(1,075 total reviews)

Alice Stewart

37% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

Octapharma Plasma has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,075 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Octapharma Plasma employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Aug 29, 2023
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Pros

Helping to make medications for sick pwople

Cons

I worked here in 2019 when they were just opening in Baton Rouge. I remember that there were clichés and employees gossiping about each other. The manager at the time was very unprofessional and just an overall nasty attitude. I heard he got fired so he no longer works there. The assistant manger showed favortism. A few of the staff from quality were highly unprofessional, mean , and picky. High turnover for nurses.

1.0
May 4, 2023

Just don’t.

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Pros

Very good health benefits Good place to start career in phlebotomy

Cons

Terrible training regimen, the moment you successfully stick someone you’ll be left to your own devices and thrown to the wolves. No sort of practice, you’ll read about and watch videos about phlebotomy and then get thrown onto the donor floor to start sticking people, you either sink or swim and 90 percent of new hires sink because they refuse to do any practical training beyond using donors as Guinea pigs. The quality department, you will be yelled at on your first day of work for things you regularly see other employees do. The managers exist in what’s called la la land, they would much rather put up pretty signs and offer bags of chips to donors than pay their overworked employees above a fast food worker’s wage. You will absolutely spend more time being taught the anatomy of the apheresis machine than you will spend learning to stick, I cannot stress this enough, they.will.not. take the time to make sure you’re comfortable and adequately trained on needle insertion or adjustments. You will be thrown to the wolves and you will end up hurting someone because of the lazy training.

1.0
Apr 8, 2023

Management is terrible

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Pros

Management used the company card to buy food for the break room after months of employees complaining that another center's break room was stocked with food.

Cons

The management is terrible at this location. During training, they act like they are there to support you and will continue their support anytime you need help on the phlebotomy floor. Once you're fully trained, they sit in their office and make excuses. The only way to get them out is to tell them that if they don't come help, a donor will lose blood which is a metric they get in trouble for when quality assurance reviews the donation statistics. The turnaround rate for employees is so high that 2 months in, I say every phlebotomist but 1 quit. That left me with 2 months of completely new employees that needed help while I was still trying to perfect my own skills. Again, management didn't come out to help the new employees after training and just expected other phlebotomists on staff to leave their donors to help.

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