WOW (not in a good way) - Anonymous employee Lonza Employee Review

1.0
12 Aug 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Big company benefits. Not much to say in favor...need to clean house and get rid of toxic people.

Cons

Uncaring, management favoritism, backstabbing and lying. Overall management useless! overworked, stressful environment, under staffed, HR useless and discriminatory, incompetent and unqualified staff according to job desriptions, lack of staff promotions,. Supervisors use profanity and yell when mistakes are made. Head of departments play favoritism based on race and give family members(with different last names) position they are not qualified for. Frequent turnover at highest levels of organization—leads to lack of vision and consistent objectives. Planning does not coordinate with production to account for staffing level capabilities. Production department feels strong whiplash and burnout. Managers are encouraged to propagate toxic positivity and lies. Lip service is paid to developing employees but it is not a real goal for managers. I’ve read most reviews and they are mostly accurate.

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Pros

Diverse opportunities across departments as one wanted

Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Compensation (for higher level associates/senior management positions)

Cons

1) Work/life balance - leaders don't honor paid time off. Many teams expect you to be available during paid time off periods 2) Benefits - employer doesn't offer employer-subsidized vision insurance 3) Holidays - employer doesn't offer MLK Day and Juneteeth as paid days off, indicating how little they value diversity, inclusion, and belonging 4) Promotions - political; not based on merit 5) Mandated 5 day return-to-office to enable "in person collaboration" while at the same time offshoring jobs to cheaper markets. 6) PTO - based on tenure, but I think Lonza prefers high turnover so they don't have to give people time off (if they even honor it in the first place - see con 1) 7) Lack of harmonization - for an established CDMO, I was surprised at the level of misalignment between sites and the lack of standardization of processes

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