Manager is your god, pray you get a good one - Anonymous employee Lonza Employee Review

2.0
23 Jan 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Constant improvement programs, although often implemented without any warning or training. Senior corporate management in HQ wants to achieve something great. Fantastic customers and many many different molecules to work on. Never boring, good variety of tasks. You may be very very lucky to get a brilliant manager.. chances for that are like winning Lotto.

Cons

Management at lower level is not skilled to manage anyone. Very visible favouritism, bullying, forcing to work overtime. Staff do not receive appropriate equipment for their job.. Often customer facing staff do not have a laptop... face to face and phone calls are then done with pen and paper. If customer has questions, they have to 'take is back'.. This is because their manager is so junior and immature that usually do not understand the job of their staff nor how long it takes and what is needed. Cheesy 1980s American alfa male culture is prevalent. Why lower level managers do not implement ANYTHING that senior manager ask them to do?

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Cons

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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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