ATCC reviews

3.2

55% would recommend to a friend

(264 total reviews)
avatar

Ruth Cheng

61% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

ATCC has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 264 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ATCC employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

Reviews by job title

264 reviews
1.0
Nov 3, 2016

Don't do it

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

some of the people here are professional and nice to be around

Cons

Management is terrible and inefficient, leadership sets you up for failure by not providing proper training then blames you for not knowing that you were trained properly. The companies leadership invested in a terrible management system that has failed to work properly from day one yet holds people accountable for things that they could not input into the system because the system failed and has to send out frequent apology emails. this place sucks, work culture sucks, they don't value their employees over their bottom line and it shows in everything they do. goals are general and your bonus evals are based on a subjective overview of you reaching arbitrarily defined goals (so if you don't kiss up to your supervisor there goes your bonus. ATCC does not pay industry standard, they only get a way with this because there are few biotech companies in Northern Virginia; I wish I would have known about the plethora of biotech companies in Maryland that offer competitive salaries before I moved here for this job.

1.0
Mar 13, 2018

Director

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are not many. You will find some good people there at the lower and middle level. If you are

Cons

Upper management lacks basic management skills. Also caught up in 70s management style. They care very little about employees and customers.

1.0
Aug 1, 2017

ATCC: Where Ego Supersedes Reason

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is okay, but make it and run away!

Cons

Lab areas are filthy Constant cutting of benefits They give you vacation hours, then steal them back using clever

Viewing 10 - 12 of 264 Reviews

Glassdoor has 273 ATCC reviews submitted anonymously by ATCC employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if ATCC is right for you.