Waste of time - Anonymous employee Lonza Employee Review

2.0
28 Nov 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good salary and benefits if your salary personal. Product is a good market leader and strong. Good location to live in the North Atlanta area. Basic steady cost of living pay increase of 2% yearly. Heath insurance cost average for the coverage.

Cons

Very micro-managed upper management. Management not trust worthy, very inconsistent and a good old boy type culture. Hard to fit in if you come in new to the environment. Company not willing to invest were it needs to be. Advancement within the company not going to happen. Internal communication of changes and close to home activities not good.

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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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