A once good company, destroyed by corporate greed - Forensic Scientist Cellmark Forensic Services Employee Review

Work that matters, large variety of things to train in (which has since shrunk dramatically), make friends for life, gradual and natural progression of increasing responsibility

Make no mistake, Cellmark is just a name and the company is now 100% Eurofins. Profit is all that matters, as the condescending vermin that call themselves directors/chief executives make clear every time there's a company update. They have sacked dozens of people, made many of us work with redundancy looming over our head as a constant threat for months and months. Begging employees to take unpaid leave to save those precious pennies for shareholders. Hiring more and more managers while lower level staff dwindled to almost nothing. A constant expectation of doing more and more work with fewer people. Please do not bother working here, the experience I gained was invaluable but Cellmark is a slowly sinking ship and not the place it was. Eurofins are taking the work away piece by piece and soon there will be nothing left

Enjoyable work sometimes Good people at lower levels

Since Eurofins takeover everything has gone down the drain, redundancies, worse hours and benefits, working five days instead of compressed four, stripping or completely eliminating departments then realising they’re important and getting people from other departments to do that work instead while still requiring high output from their original work Really poor communication, finding out there will be redundancies but not being told any more than that Management getting angry when people then decide to leave and go elsewhere Gaslighting and being told they actually weren’t threatened with redundancies after too many people have left in an attempt to get people to stay Requesting people take unpaid leave because they don’t have enough money to pay their staff Lack of respect Limiting training opportunities and giving opportunities to newer people then giving back feedback to people who have been trained in fewer things Feedback system is just bullying at times Micromanaging, tracking staff passes So many middle managers who don’t generate revenue so the people who do have to work harder and faster under more pressure but god forbid you make a mistake or get frustrated Changes to processes that make no sense and end up slowing down turn around time Awful pay for the responsibility and the pressures of the job ~25/26k after a 4 years in the job Having to jump through hoops to progress like giving tours and presentations just to make an extra 1k Withholding pay increases for people who have had an informal pip process within last 12 months when salary is already so low Senior management don’t care about staff or victims, just revenue. Big focus on shareholders