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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1K reviews
2.0
Apr 23, 2025

Restructuring

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits, decent pay, decent work life balance

Cons

The company is currently restructuring. I loved working for Octapharma until they started making all of these changes. Centers are now understaffed and many safety precautions are being overlooked. Upper management no longer seems to care about their employees.

1.0
Dec 4, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are no pros to working at Octapharma. The only positive this job had on my life was motivating me to go on to a much more respected and educated field so that I would never be abused the way I was at Octapharma again. I worked there 10 years ago and on reading the reviews here it's clear that nothing has changed.

Cons

1) Grossly unprofessional and abusive coworkers and managers. 2) Managers lie to you about the prospects of pay raises and advancement. 3) Very low pay for the type and intensity of work you do. 4) Blatant favoritism by managers and little to no prospect of advancement if you are not in their inner circle. 4) Skills are not transferrable to other fields, the only way the skills I learned at Octapharma were transferrable to the real world was learning how to single tie produce bags at the grocery store. 5) Many other negatives. Even after 10 years I still vividly remember the horrible experiences I had at Octapharma. Everything said in the negative reviews is true.

1.0
Jan 30, 2018

Assistant Manager

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good start out pay after completion of the OLA program Good experience for anyone lacking practical experience

Cons

You are not guaranteed the locations you pick and will most likely not get the ones you want. They expect you to work extreme hours on salary which means you could work 70 hr weeks and not get paid. They don't pay their staff nearly enough, and this means that the centers cannot pick and pay for the talent they so desperately need. I mean would you want some high school graduate sticking a needle in your arm? Some locations are dangerous as the target clientele are usually within ghettos. They preach work/life balance to the moon and back but I will tell you right now it doesn't exist.

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