Octapharma Plasma reviews

2.7

24% would recommend to a friend

(1,072 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 1,072 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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3.0
Dec 3, 2014

Roller coaster Ride

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There are some really good employees here as co-workers. The current management is great and tries their hardest to work with you. They really are looking to advance you up in the company. Flexible hours.

Cons

Revolving management, along with "cliques" in the work place and employees utilizing their call off exceptions to miss work. The flexible scheduling can be a con because your schedule isn't consistent and changes every week. Starting pay is crappy as well as raises when cross training in different areas

1.0
Dec 1, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The only pros I can think of are the fact that you get to meet a lot of people from a lot of different backgrounds, and if you're just there for a paycheck your hours will be pretty consistent.

Cons

The most blatant of the many cons of working at this company is the very low pay grade you receive for the kind of work you do. Expect any additional training you receive to take weeks or months to complete, and expect it to be put on hold for long periods of time. Also be prepared for long, monotonous hours on your feet with no breaks and managers that don't care about you. Going in I thought that rude donors would be the problem with this job but management is far, far worse. As to be expected in a manufacturing facility, the only thing they care about in the end is working their employees to the bone to get a maximum amount of labor out of them. Management at my center insulted and degraded every employee, including myself, at least once to a level any reasonable person would consider to be verbally abusive, and at times they did it to us in front of donors, or even to donors. Every manager I met had an elitist attitude and they show very obvious favoritism towards certain employees. In my case one of my managers had a very ghetto mindset and only showed appreciation towards employees with that same attitude. The rest of us might as well have been wearing slave rags instead of lab coats. In the end if you're not friends with management it doesn't matter how hard you work, how nice you are, how smart you are, or how long you've been working there, you can expect to get treated like dirt.

4.0
Nov 20, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of autonomy - the managers are not medical professionals so they trust the nurses' judgement as long as you have documentation to back it up. Good coworkers, drama was there if you went looking but most people could stay out of it. Pay was pretty good, about the same as hospital for a new grad. Lots of head to toe assessments, some first aid/emergency care. If you wanted to do nothing you could hide out with paperwork until you were needed -- if you like to stay busy you can cross-train to the floor and to the front registration.

Cons

Shifts start at 6:30am, 9:30am, 12:30pm and go for 8 hours (or until center is closed). Despite repeated requests, management wouldn't allow the nurses to go to a 10 hour or 12 hour shift schedule, though other areas were allowed to have those shifts. Lots of silly trainings that happened every few months. Doctor only visited once a week and wasn't always available by phone.

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