Promoting Mediocracy in the industry - Lab Analyst II Nelson Labs Employee Review

1.0
15 Feb 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Decent coworkers (varies by section, management makes or breaks it honestly), - Decent cafeteria area - Food Truck rotation

Cons

- Overtime is common (Sterility assurance for example) - Union busting/prone to lay offs to 'make budget' - lacking competitive pay and health care benefits - Reactive VS proactive work flows ; Sales has 0 clue what happens in the lab space and makes up ridiculous promises rather then working with the impacted section to actually have a deliverable that isn't haphazard. - Promotions go to the blow bare minimum competences instead of those who exemplary just cause 'they vibe' better with management.

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5.0
30 Jun 2025
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Pros

Great people in the company

Cons

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3.0
24 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

*Team builds if they schedule them *Ice cream twice a week *Lab experience *Coworkers

Cons

*Micromanagement *Hard to move up *They don't care about their employees like they used to. They're opening up a new clean room and I highly advise to anyone that's going to apply to avoid sterility assurance as much as possible. High turnover rate and you usually can't take a break until after your shift which you can be in the clean room for 8-12 hours. Lots of mandatory overtime and it's exhausting. Mostly standing in one place and need to be very aseptic or else you will ruin the test. There's also cameras everywhere watching you. It's easy to burnout in this department. Even if you try leaving you'll never truly get out of it.

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