ATCC reviews

3.2

55% would recommend to a friend

(264 total reviews)
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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).

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264 reviews
3.0
Mar 23, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Worldwide reputation in the field of medical, biology, chemistry etc laboratories for providing quality samples and supplies. If you work in this field, then this would be a great thing to have on your resume because of the name. Also interesting brown bag seminars (though we didn't have these very often when I was there)

Cons

Not a lot of promotion potential. Work we did in my department was very routine and can get boring

3.0
Mar 5, 2015

good

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

not a stressful work environment

Cons

needs to add more employees to the work force

2.0
Feb 25, 2015

Great People; Greatly Disappointing Senior Management Team

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Definitely the people - friendly, intelligent, loyal and diverse. - Location in Northern VA. - Vessel for obtaining experience and knowledge. - Annual company social events to get employees together - ice cream socials, health fair, holiday party, and others throughout the year. - Benefits: Health Insurance options, retirement, vacation and sick leave.

Cons

- SENIOR MANAGEMENT: most are only worried about impressing the CEO, without any regard to the employees' interest; most are "Yes" men/women, only focused on popularity within their "Management" group - nobody has the strength/courage to say "no," even if/when he or she disagrees with the majority or knows that the newest idea is NOT a good one. NO OPPORTUNITY TO ADVANCE: Can only get promoted if there is a "business need," which is code for "if you're really liked by Senior Management" or "If we lose someone in the group." Supposed to have Promotion Cycles a couple of times a year, but something always comes up to postpone/cancel the process. PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS: managers impose significant performance goals on employees, expect them to exceed expectation, but are not allowed to give more than an "Average" score. SALARY: grossly paid under the average for the area, unless you're referred by a member of Senior Management - then your salary is grossly over the average for the area. CHANGED WORK WEEK HOURS FROM 37.5-40: Once upon a time, the 37.5 work-week was a Pro, now they expect you to work 40 hours with no salary change. COMMUNICATION: The only communication that exists is that of the rumor-mill. Employees are consistently in the dark.

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