Pros
- 3 day weekends
- generally chill coworkers
- cafeteria right above office area
- decent for lab setting experience
- good foot in the door for science scene
- If you work at an offsite such as Framingham or elsewhere, you may get poached by the people contracting Boston Analytical/Alpha Analytical for a higher position after a certain amount of time
Cons
- Massive area to cover for a variety of testing
- Ancient technology can impede work flow
- Lots of cleanroom dressing and undressing
- long work shifts
- somewhat disconnected from the office in NH
- easy to feel like a cog in a massive machine
- long on boarding process, there may be times you sit for hours with no new trainings and got to look busy, nor kill time on the internet
- fluctuating work environment such as hot rooms, clean rooms, then going outside to traverse to another building year round
- The machine rooms even with ear protection will give you a sense on tinnitus